So I got a serial cable and thus can see what works and what doesn't: - I'm using netboot daily images, writing that to the sd card - replacing kernel and initrd with the network-console daily images - using latest u-boot-exynos_2017.09+dfsg1-3_armhf - and the hardkernel u-boot tree branch odroidxu4-v2017.05 - writing u-boot from debian plus the BLOB from hardkernel to the sd-card
It boots fine, but ends up in the debian installer. The r8152 network card is not initialized/found. modprobe has no effect. Looking at the armbian source tree I find no r8152 related patch that seems important. Maybe a problem with the usb driver? Given that armbian only uses 4.9, while debian daily already has kernel 4.13 it should be in even better shape. Does anyone have a fat image or hint for constructing one? missing "lsusb" and tools like that is a bit of a pain for debugging this. with a 16GB sd-card space is not an issue. Andreas
