On Wed, Sep 18, 2024 at 06:21:42PM +0800, YOYO wrote: > Hello everyone, > Recently I bought a Gigabyte MP30-AR0 (rev 1.1) motherboard in a online > second-hand market. But I encountered a lot of difficulties when installing > Debian 12 arm64 on it. > > > I've tried the official system image (Ubantu 14.02) provided by Gigabyte > first. > But after I flashed the image to USB storage using Win32DiskImaginer, > I couldn't see any Partition using the newest Diskgenius, which had already > support Ext2/3/4. > (Actually I couldn't see any partition when I load the img > file in Diskgenius as a Virtual Disk either.) > > > Then I turned to Debian 12.I've tried "debian-12.7.0-arm64-DVD-1.iso", > flashing it to USB storage using UltraISO 9. However, I couldn't boot from > the > USB storage under u-Boot at all. Actually, I have no idea about how to > manually select boot device and boot from the Debian install CD/DVD imagine > in u-Boot. > > > Finally, I tried to install Debian using the built-in linux X-Gene > (Applied Micro Linux), following the instructions on > https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/arm64/apds03.en.html, > but there's no ar availiable on X-Gene. After getting a aarch64 gnu > tool-chain, > I installed debootstrap successfully. But error occurs again and it turns out > that debootstrap needs perl to run. With no package manager (like dpkg, apt, > yum) or compile toolchain (including make, cmake and etc.), I don't know if > there's any way I can install Debian 12 on the Gigabyte MP30-AR0. > > > I know there are alreadly plenty mails in Debian Mailing List, but they all > focused on Gigabyte MP30-AR1, which is in UEFI boot mode, but the MP30-AR0 > I have works in u-Boot mode. I've tried all the ways for MP30-AR1, but none > of > them worked on my MP30-AR0. > > Thank you again for your generous help.
I have seen some people have managed to convert their AR0 to UEFI. As far as I can tell the uboot version is completely useless at this point. https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2016/03/08/gigabyte-mp30-ar0-flashing-uefi/ -- Len Sorensen
