On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 05:58:36PM +1100, Jonathan Gray wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 07:46:30AM +0100, Otto Moerbeek wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 05, 2017 at 09:41:27AM -0500, Joe Gidi wrote:
> >
> > > I was stuck at that point for a while. Make sure you have everything you
> > > need
> > > to boot on the DOS partition of your USB drive; mine was missing
> > > u-boot.bin.
> > > Are you using the bootcode.bin and start.elf files from Raspbian?
> >
> > I'm using the files as installed by the installer. But indeed,
> > u-boot.bin is missing on the i partition on the USB disk. Will add
> > that (and find out why it isn't there) tonight. In the meantime I'm
> > doing a make build, which does not seem to be stable yet. I've seen
> > segfaults now and then plus at least one malloc use-after-free error.
> >
> > -Otto
> >
>
> Missing something like this, should already be present as
> /usr/mdec/rpi/u-boot.bin on the ramdisk.
It's not in the /usr/mdec installed on the USB disk, that has only one
file in it here: (trying to look it up, but the machine is remote and
it paniced it looks...)
Anyway, did not succed yet to boot without SD card in it. I must say,
from all the messages, it is not clear to me which steps from the OP
are neccesary and which not. Later in the week I'll have some more
time to investigate.
-Otto
>
> Index: install.md
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/src/distrib/arm64/ramdisk/install.md,v
> retrieving revision 1.2
> diff -u -p -r1.2 install.md
> --- install.md 18 Feb 2017 02:01:53 -0000 1.2
> +++ install.md 6 Mar 2017 06:55:24 -0000
> @@ -56,6 +56,8 @@ md_installboot() {
> device_tree_address=0x100
> kernel=u-boot.bin
> __EOT
> +
> + cp $_mdec/u-boot.bin /mnt/mnt/
> }
>
> md_prep_fdisk() {
