Re: Question about installing Debian 8.0.3 arm64 on EUFI
Hi Ronald,
Many thanks for the report.
Is there any chance you will have the bandwidth/opportunity to
occasionally test future "testing" images, as the missing features get
included?
Regards,
Leif
On 18 March 2016 at 04:27, Ronald Maas <ronaldjmaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 9:28 PM, Ronald Maas <ronaldjmaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 3:52 AM, Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org> 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.
>>>> > ---
>> Based on the information listed by dmesg, the serial ports for ttyS0
>> is one of 4 16550 UARTs integrated on the X-Gene SOC. Furthermore EFI
>> RTC driver is used. Was not able to find anything about WDT. But so
>> far the MP30-AR0 hardware seems pretty standard to me and in this
>> regard probably similar to other X-Gene based boards.
>>
>> Actually I believe the only difference with this Gigabyte board is it
>> includes an AST2400 BMC chip. Which is kind of nice to have VGA
>> available
>>
>>>> >
>>>>
>>>> > 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.
>>>
>>>> <------
>>>> L3c Cache: 8MB
>>>>
>>>> Not sure if this is helpful or not
>>>>
>>>> Anyway. Thanks for the suggestions. Ronald
>>>
>>> I'm guessing there is something required to boot on the Gigabyte which
>>> is not yet supported on the Jessie 3.16 kernel.
>>>
>>> It would be interesting, but not vital, if you could try again, adding
>>> "earlycon" to the kernel command line. Won't help anything, but would
>>> potentially let me know what's going on.
>> Both earlycon and earlyprintk in combination with console=ttyS0,115200
>> did not display any additional information.
>>
>>>
>>> What might help would be trying a newer installer, like the current
>>> "testing" image:
>>> http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/arm64/iso-cd/
>>>
>> After adding console=ttyS0,115200, the kernel booted successfully. But
>> unfortunately the installer was not able to initialize the network
>> hardware. Even after trying several times
>>
>> Uname + dmesg: http://pastebin.com/vMpyL86F
>>
>>> Or failing that, the mini.iso from
>>> https://builds.96boards.org/releases/reference-platform/components/debian-installer/16.03/
>>
>> After adding console=ttyS0,115200, the kernel booted successfully and
>> this time the installer was able to get IP address from DHCP and
>> download some files from Debian FTP
>>
>> Uname + dmesg: http://pastebin.com/QNVxtPe6
>>
>> I ran out of spare hard drives. So will try full install tomorrow using Mini ISO
>>
>>> is basically a "testing" installer with some added not-yet-upstream
>>> patches for GRUB/kernel. If the "testing" doesn't work, I would be
>>> quite interested in seeing if this one helps.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Leif
>>
>> Thanks for your suggestions, Ronald
>
> Hi Leif,
>
> Just to let you know that Mini ISO installed successfully on the
> MP30-AR0. During installation I used console=ttyS0,115200. After
> reboot, Debian started just fine out of the box displaying the familar
> shell logon on VGA. There was no more need for ttyS0 or other boot
> arguments.
>
> Kind regards,
> Ronald Maas
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