On 2021-01-27, Rick Thomas wrote: > I'm trying to install Debian Buster [1] on my Cubox-i4P with an eSATA > drive. Everything seems to be fine, but when it comes time to reboot, > it boots into the installer again, rather than the installed system. > > Here's what I did, and what I observed: > > *) I downloaded the two parts of the SDcard install image from [1] and followed the instructions in the README to create a 4GB (I didn't have anything smaller) SDcard installer. > *) I connected the eSATA disk and plugged the SDcard into the Cubox and powered it up. > *) It booted off the SD-card into the installer as expected. ... > *) But when the reboot happened, I found myself back in the installer. > *) I tried removing the SDcard and rebooting, but it failed to boot -- after power-on nothing happened. > What I hoped would happen with the eSATA drive was that the installer > would write the boot firmware (u-boot, etc) to the SDcard, and > configure it to get /boot, root, /home, swap off the eSATA. U-boot can only be loaded from microSD on that platform, as far as I'm aware. You can use the bootloader from the installer image, just delete the boot.scr and/or extlinux.conf from the partition on the installer image, or make another partition on the microSD card, and mark it bootable, but don't put anything on it. Then u-boot should fall back to loading the kernel+initrd+device-tree off of the eSATA. If you interrupt the boot process and get to a u-boot prompt, you should be able to see the order of devices u-boot tries to boot from with: printenv boot_targets Now that bullseye is in the early phases of freeze, please consider testing bullseye, too, if you can! :) live well, vagrant
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