Re: uboot@qnap - debian

[Domenico Andreoli]

On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 07:53:47AM +0800, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> * Domenico Andreoli  [2022-01-23 11:45]:
> > Any reason for installing Stretch?
> > 
> > In case you want to try with something more recent, Buster is the latest
> > Debian to support these QNAP.
> 
> The installer isn't available for buster on Orion devices (only
> Kirkwood); stretch is the latest.
> 
> > Bullseye is also possible (although not officially supported) but
> > only as upgrade from Buster and after some manual fiddling (see
> 
> The manual fiddling only works on Kirkwood, not Orion.  With the
> Kirkwood-devices, there's enough MTD flash (the problem is the
> partition layout).  The Orion-based devices only have 8 MB flash,
> which isn't enough.

My apologies for having spread wrong info.
Thanks Martin for correcting me :)

Dom

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where, besides raspian can I find a full armhf installer that works on an rpi4b?

[gene heskett]

I thought I had some cornered earlier today, but when written to u-sd  
and booted, were arm64.

For low latency reasons when a realtime kernel is installed it must be 
for armhf.

Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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Re: uboot@qnap - debian

[Martin Michlmayr]

* Domenico Andreoli  [2022-01-23 11:45]:
> Any reason for installing Stretch?
> 
> In case you want to try with something more recent, Buster is the latest
> Debian to support these QNAP.

The installer isn't available for buster on Orion devices (only
Kirkwood); stretch is the latest.

> Bullseye is also possible (although not officially supported) but
> only as upgrade from Buster and after some manual fiddling (see

The manual fiddling only works on Kirkwood, not Orion.  With the
Kirkwood-devices, there's enough MTD flash (the problem is the
partition layout).  The Orion-based devices only have 8 MB flash,
which isn't enough.

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Re: uboot@qnap - debian

[Domenico Andreoli]

On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 09:26:06PM +0100, Johannes 'kefko' Köhler wrote:
> 
> Much valued debian people!

Hi Johannes,

> iam trying with an debian installation@qnap ts-109...
> 
> I already had a running jessie installation, but the
> dist moved to archived and therefore the possibility to
> run this working setting is past hence, or gone.
> 
> Now... I retried with the currently stretch installer,
> and the routine is running proper, but without leaving
> a bootable uboot setting to myself@ nonvolatile ram

Any reason for installing Stretch?

In case you want to try with something more recent, Buster is the latest
Debian to support these QNAP.

Bullseye is also possible (although not officially supported) but
only as upgrade from Buster and after some manual fiddling (see
https://cyrius.com/debian/orion/qnap/).

> The installer rejected the uuid for the root device
> within /var/log/syslog, but i fixed it and then
> not anymore an  error message. Kernel and initrd got flashed
> to device like the installer told me...
> 
> Resetting the qnap ends in the uboot loader screen
> (through serial tty). At within the uboot shell i realized
> debian bootcmd arguments were not set-up.
> 
> Searching pages was not effective at all. Maybe someone
> can give me a hard or softlink to some good documentation,
> or code examples... OR still has an answer to my
> problem.

https://cyrius.com/debian/orion/qnap/ is a good starting point.

> - thx and sincerely
> kefko
> 
Dom

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