On 15/08/2023 17:44, gene heskett wrote:
used dd to write the arm64-bookworm-12.1 netinstall image to a 64G SDXC ONN.
brand card, makes no attempt to boot plugged into a bananapi-m5. bring card
back to reader, can't mount it, wrong filesystem for both partitions. Give up,
write Armbian-jammie-full-desktop iso to card, mounts ok, boots bananapi-m5
normally.
What did I do wrong?
The unfortunate reality is that boot on arm is *still* a mess. The server guys
and the windows laptop guys
have settled on uefi (though the implementations are often far from perfect),
but the hobbyist board segment
is still all over the place, with each board (or family of closely related
boards) still needing it's own build
of u-boot that knows how to initialise the board, load a kernel and initrd and
pass them the relavent device
tree.
For some boards, Debian offers "concatenatable images", where a board-specific
boot section can be concatenated
with a board-independent d-i section to produce a boot image suitable for a
specific board, yours doesn't seem
to be one of them though.
.
