On Sat, May 04, 2019 at 12:29:30PM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: >On 2019-05-04, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> On Sb, 04 mai 19, 06:57:43, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >>> >>> I'm ready to start a second try where I will be using manual >>> partitioning (without GPT), hoping I will get a bootable system. >> >> This worked, see >> https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/PINE64/PINEA64 > >Thanks for the wiki page! > >It's definitely frustrating that sunxi64 installs the bootloader and >boot firmware at an offset incompatible with GPT partitioning... I've >heard there might hacks to set up a compatible GPT partition table, but >the defaults are definitely incompatible. :/
Nod. partman needs updates to make things happier here. As the moment, we're defaulting to GPT for arm64 machines and that's not ideal for all users. Andrei - how was your SD card formatted when you started? Inside d-i, partman should not be creating a new partition table if there's one already there. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [email protected] We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control.
