Hi Karsten, many thanks for your detailed explanations. I added a few comments and questions.
On Tuesday 11 November 2014 08:10:14 Karsten Merker wrote: > On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 11:52:54PM +0100, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > I am wondering if there is a debian installer image for armhf for cubox- > > i/armhf. > > > > If yes, any documentation on how the installer process works (e.g. boots > > from USB, installs on micro sd card, etc. or boots from micro SD and also > > installs on micro SD etc.) would be helpful for me. > > Hello, > > I do not have any Cubox hardware, so I can only provide some > generic advice. At least the Cubox-i2eX and the Cubox-i4Pro > should be supported by the Debian armmp kernel (cf. > http://d-i.debian.org/manual/en.armhf/ch02s01.html). I have both and can confirm this. Also the Hummingboard i2eX is works. I did a bootstrap (w/o the debian installer). > Booting a netboot installer image by TFTP is described at > http://d-i.debian.org/manual/en.armhf/ch05s01.html. Does this imply that I need to install a micro SD card with the u-boot SPL? > Daily-built netboot images are available at > http://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/armhf/daily/netboot/ and > the device-tree files for the supported systems are at > http://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/armhf/daily/device-tree/. > > We have recently added support for hd-media images, i.e. booting > the installer from a USB stick, to d-i, but this works "out of > the box" only on systems that have a very recent u-boot version > (v2014.10) with support for the new common u-boot bootcmd > handling framework. Again, here we are talking about the SPL not the IPL, right? In this case you the u-boot version from sid would do for the Cubox-i you mention. > Most vendor-supplied u-boot versions are > probably still based on older releases. Booting the installer > from a USB stick on armhf is not yet documented in the > installation guide (that is still on my todo list), but some > information is available in the Debian wiki at > > https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Allwinner#Installing_from_a_USB_s > tick > If the system's u-boot is older, but has support for loading the > kernel/initrd/dtb from a USB mass storage device, booting the > hd-media installer from a USB stick should still be possible, but > you would have to do it "by hand" instead of using the autoboot > framework provided by newer u-boot versions. > > If you have further questions, feel free to ask. Many thanks again, Rainer > > Regards, > Karsten -- Rainer Dorsch http://bokomoko.de/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1911527.oRMKKssuMD@blackbox
