Helo, I've tried to use D-I on A10 olinuxino lime, following the guide at https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Allwinner#Installing_from_an_SD_card_image.
I've download the image: # wget http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/dists/stretch/main/installer-armhf/current/images/netboot/SD-card-images/firmware.A10-OLinuXino-Lime.img.gz --2017-06-04 21:52:28-- http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/dists/stretch/main/installer-armhf/current/images/netboot/SD-card-images/firmware.A10-OLinuXino-Lime.img.gz Resolving ftp.uk.debian.org (ftp.uk.debian.org)... 78.129.164.123, 2001:1b40:5600:ff80:f8ee::1 Connecting to ftp.uk.debian.org (ftp.uk.debian.org)|78.129.164.123|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 224112 (219K) [application/octet-stream] Saving to: 'firmware.A10-OLinuXino-Lime.img.gz' firmware.A10-OLinuX 100%[===================>] 218.86K 581KB/s in 0.4s 2017-06-04 21:52:28 (581 KB/s) - 'firmware.A10-OLinuXino-Lime.img.gz' saved [224112/224112] # wget http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/dists/stretch/main/installer-armhf/current/images/netboot/SD-card-images/partition.img.gz --2017-06-04 21:52:53-- http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/dists/stretch/main/installer-armhf/current/images/netboot/SD-card-images/partition.img.gz Resolving ftp.uk.debian.org (ftp.uk.debian.org)... 78.129.164.123, 2001:1b40:5600:ff80:f8ee::1 Connecting to ftp.uk.debian.org (ftp.uk.debian.org)|78.129.164.123|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 23891122 (23M) [application/octet-stream] Saving to: 'partition.img.gz' partition.img.gz 100%[================================================>] 22.78M 648KB/s in 36s 2017-06-04 21:53:30 (646 KB/s) - 'partition.img.gz' saved [23891122/23891122] Then I concateneted the two files: # zcat firmware.A10-OLinuXino-Lime.img.gz partition.img.gz > image_a10.img # ls -lrt total 63628 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23891122 May 25 12:21 partition.img.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 224112 May 25 12:21 firmware.A10-OLinuXino-Lime.img.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 40960000 Jun 4 21:57 image_a10.img But if I look inside the image, the kernel linux is missing: # losetup /dev/loop0 image_a10.img # fdisk -lu /dev/loop0 Disk /dev/loop0: 39.1 MiB, 40960000 bytes, 80000 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disklabel type: dos Disk identifier: 0x0eded707 Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /dev/loop0p1 * 2048 79999 77952 38.1M c W95 FAT32 (LBA) # partprobe /dev/loop0 # mount /dev/loop0p1 /mnt/card # ls -l /mnt/card/ total 20732 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1575 May 25 10:50 boot.scr drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 41984 May 25 10:50 dtbs -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 21185369 May 25 10:50 initrd.gz If I flash the image on the sd, and I boot from sd, u-boot complaint about missing the vmlinuz file. I suspect that the generated images for D-I for arm are broken at the moment. I've also tried to download the image from http://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/armhf/daily/, but initrd.img is missing instead of vmlinuz. -- Diego Roversi <[email protected]>
