Hi. On Mon, Feb 03, 2020 at 09:46:09PM +0100, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote: > I wrote the guide for OdroidHC1, happy to answer any questions.
Thank you for your work. I used that page as a template for two successful HC2 Debian installations. > Also the blobs required to boot the device are not part of debian, not even > available in non-free. I'm aware of that. Non-free blobs remain non-free regardless of their origin though. > I reached out to hardkernel and asked them formally > to add a license for the signed files, as that would be a requirement for > distributions like debian to be able to ship them (in non-free at least). > But that didn't end up nowhere. And that's the support quality of ODROID I wrote about earlier. > The debian installer sounds great in theory, but in practice you install > from one medium to a second medium. Why? All you need is d-i kernel, initrd and dtb put into the same sdcard that you've used to install u-boot and aforementioned blobs. Next you just use u-boot to load the kernel, initrd and dtb and enjoy the sight of d-i running on a real hardware, installing real Debian on the very same sdcard. With the only possible culprit being the installation of u-boot itself (by d-i) itself, in the case that Debian-provided u-boot is unable to function on that particular board. Which is not the case for HC2, but I lack HC1 to check it. Reco
