So, you mean that u-Boot is almost useless on this motherboard?
It really sounds strange, is it because of u-Boot's poor compatibility?
But I've seen many DIYers using u-Boot on their ARM-Linux demo boards.
(Though I know UEFI definitely has a better compatibility on PC and servers.)
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From:
"Lennart Sorensen"
<[email protected]>;
Date: Wed, Sep 18, 2024 09:16 PM
To: "YOYO"<[email protected]>;
Cc: "debian-arm"<[email protected]>;
Subject: Re: Problems about installing Debian on Arm64
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
