On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 11:29:10PM +0100, Thorsten Alteholz wrote: >Hi, > >after getting my Macchiatobin, I naively thought that I only had to copy the >arm64 installer from [1] or an netinst image to an USB stick and I could >start with the fun. >Unfortunately that did not work. So is the whole thing not that easy as >written on [2] and do I really have to build everything from scratch like >recommended in the Macchiatobin-wiki?
No, not at all. Unfortunately, the Macchiatobin still ships with U-Boot installed as the default firmware and it's not all that useful for installation. The better way to use the machine is to write an EDK2 (UEFI) image to a uSD card and boot using that. There are some switch settings documented in the solid-run docs [3] to tell the machine to boot off uSD instead of the SPI flash. The EDK2 image I've used is one built by my friend Leif (unixsmurf on IRC) [4], and it works reasonably well. Using that, the system should happily boot Debian from a USB stick and it should let you install and run. Once you've installed, *for now* you'll need to use the rescue mode option to install grub to the removable media path, as we don't yet have support for storing UEFI boot variables. We're not *quite* there for an "everything works" system, but we're not too far away. There's occasional discussion on #debian-arm, and I'm hosting a (quiet-ish) mailing list for macchiatobin discussion [5]. HTH! >[1] https://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/arm64/ >[2] https://wiki.debian.org/Arm64Port [3] https://wiki.solid-run.com/doku.php?id=products:a8040:communityboard:dipswitch [4] http://eciton.net/~leif/macchiatobin/flash-image-17.10.bin [5] https://lists.einval.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/macchiato -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [email protected] "I've only once written 'SQL is my bitch' in a comment. But that code is in use on a military site..." -- Simon Booth
