On 4/22/20 7:15 PM, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > The debian-installer concatenateable images from buster *should* work > with *serial console*: > > > https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/buster/main/installer-arm64/current/images/netboot/SD-card-images/README.concatenateable_images > > Getting the installer running on LCD is still a work-in-progress, but > you *might* be able to get the text console running by editing the boot > arguments on the boot media and passing console=tty0 and adding the > appropriate modules to the initrd by appending an additional cpio > archive to it... finding out exactly which modules... is a > project. Though you could append all of the modules for the matching > kernel version. > > But no, there's no image that will "just work" without some fiddling.
I found this older thread and wanted to check if there have been any updates on this that I might have missed? I gave the images from buster a try and the installation process ran fine on LCD until the network interface wasn't found. Apparently the WIFI is a RTL8723cs device and support landed in 5.9, coincidentally the kernel in bullseye, so I gave its SD card images a try. However, they launch to a black screen, so I assume that this still goes out to serial? Assuming that I figure out how to connect the serial (apparently through the headphone jack), should installation over serial be routine, or are there also still gotchas? Thanks, Christian
