Re: jessie installation problem on arm sheevaplug

[Rodrigo Valiña Gutiérrez <rodrivg@gmail.com>]

I had the same problem installing Debian 8 'Jessie' on a SheevaPlug.

I solved it temporarily by doing the following:

- In u-boot:

setenv machid 00000692

saveenv

- Then install normally. The 'make the system bootable' phase will fail because flash-kernel fails:
---- /var/log/installer/syslog:
May 16 13:47:28 in-target: Setting up u-boot-tools (2014.10+dfsg1-5) ...^M
4-kirkwood
May 16 13:47:46 in-target: Unsupported platform.
May 16 13:47:46 flash-kernel-installer: error: flash-kernel failed
May 16 13:47:46 main-menu[170]: WARNING **: Configuring 'flash-kernel-installer' failed with error code 1
May 16 13:47:46 main-menu[170]: WARNING **: Menu item 'flash-kernel-installer' failed.
----

- Then select 'execute a shell' and write:

cd /target/boot/

/target/usr/bin/mkimage -A arm -O linux -T kernel  -C none -n uImage  -a 0x00008000 -e 0x00008000 -d vmlinuz uImage

/target/usr/bin/mkimage -A arm -O linux -T ramdisk -C none -n uInitrd                             -d initrd.img  uInitrd

- It may be neccesary to change 0x00008000 to 0x00800000 in both cases, but in my case it worked the way above.

- Then 'exit' the shell and select 'continue without boot loader'.

- I think that this last phase of mkimage should be repeated on every kernel upgrade because I think flash-kernel (which calls mkimage) will fail again.