Re: Question about installing Debian 8.0.3 arm64 on EUFI
On Wed, 2016-03-16 at 10:52 +0000, Leif Lindholm wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 08:06:17PM -0700, Ronald Maas wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Did you also follow the advise stated at the bottom of that
> > > post?:
> > > ---
> > > Note: A few people have pointed out that the Gigabyte isn’t SBSA
> > > compliant because it lacks the right serial port, RTC and WDT.
> > > However
> > > it still boots RHELSA fine if you add console=ttyS0,115200.
> > > ---
> > >
> > >
> > > If not, break into grub and edit the command line by typing 'c',
> > > and
> > > add the suggested modification before the --- on the "linux"
> > > line.
> > I tried several options, but unfortunately non of these had any
> > effect:
> > console=ttyS0,115200 BOOT_DEBUG=2 DEBIAN_FRONT_END=text acpi=off
> >
> >
> > >
> > > There are a couple of reasons why the console might not be picked
> > > up
> > > automatically - I am not sufficiently familiar with the Gigabyte
> > > platform to tell which it is.
> > >
> > I ran the Centos installer, and noticed their EFI stub displayed 2
> > more
> > lines compared to Debian's version:
> >
> > EFI stub: Booting Linux Kernel...
> > EFI stub: Using DTB from configuration table <-----
> > EFI stub: Existing boot services and installing virtual address
> > map...
> Yeah, these two lines only went into 3.16 kernel, and I don't think
> they were cherry-picked into the Jessie kernel.
Jessie == 3.16 (currently 3.16.7-ckt20-1+deb8u2), so I guess you meant
something later?
Ian.
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