2017-10-22 9:31 GMT+03:00 Rick Ashford <[email protected]>: > There is a great thread on the Armbian forum about the EspressoBin, and it > helped me get things up and running with Tumbleweed. > > One of the guys there has a public Dropbox link that includes their images > for flashing the u-boot loader: > https://www.dropbox.com/sh/kmgmo1uubhcczx5/AAAYEvTIFxpBr0dHG2QcapTza?dl=0 > > The thread: > https://forum.armbian.com/index.php?/topic/4089-espressobin-support-development-efforts/&page=4 > > With their boot loader I was able to finally use BTRFS images as well as PXE > boot. It also has an EFI load function in the help that I need to get around > to trying.
Well, If armian u-boot is able to boot our standard EFI-Grub JeOS, then we can recommend to use it with openSUSE and don't reinvent the wheel. > > Rick Ashford > Sales Engineering Manager - West > SUSE Linux > [email protected] > Office: 512-782-4318 > Mobile: 512-731-3035 > > On Oct 21, 2017, at 12:32 PM, Matwey V. Kornilov <[email protected]> > wrote: > > 2017-10-21 19:47 GMT+03:00 Matwey V. Kornilov <[email protected]>: > > 2017-10-21 19:35 GMT+03:00 Matwey V. Kornilov <[email protected]>: > > 2017-10-20 18:02 GMT+03:00 Matwey V. Kornilov <[email protected]>: > > 2017-10-20 17:37 GMT+03:00 Alexander Graf <[email protected]>: > > > > On 20.10.17 16:21, Matwey V. Kornilov wrote: > > 20.10.2017 17:12, Alexander Graf пишет: > > > > On 20.10.17 13:57, Matwey V. Kornilov wrote: > > Hi, > > > I've just received EspressoBin 1G. Any success stories how to run openSUSE? > > > > I think you'll basically have to somehow flash a working U-Boot with > > distro boot onto it and then just dd the tumbleweed/42.3 iso onto a usb > > stick and cross your fingers that gets you to a point where you can > > install :) > > > It has microsd card, I think it should be able to boot from sd, no? > > I also need to to find serial console pins on the board :) > > > There seems to be a lengthy discussion on the mailing list. I guess you > > can select the boot device using DIP switches though? > > > Yes, I can. I think it is preferred way. Need to find expected layout > > to place u-boot image. > > > Well, at least while booting from SATA, they say that BootRom looks > > for code starting with zero offset, which implies that there can not > > be any GPT partition table. > > Probably, it is similar for SD. If so, we need to flash our EFI-aware > > u-boot instead of upstream one. > > > > Well, SATA flash image from here > > > http://wiki.espressobin.net/tiki-index.php?page=Boot+ESPRESSObin+from+SATA+drive&highlight=sata > > > suits for booting from microsd card, when it is flushed from zero > > offset and boot selection switchs are set to 7. > > > At least, there is non-destructive way to check out u-boot image. > > > Double checked. Seems that microsd boot doesn't work and is not > supported. At least for my V5 board. > It just falls back to SPINOR > > > > > http://espressobin.net/forums/topic/how-to-flash-u-boot/ > > > > Alex > > > > > -- > > With best regards, > > Matwey V. Kornilov > > > > > -- > > With best regards, > > Matwey V. Kornilov > > > > > -- > > With best regards, > > Matwey V. Kornilov > > > > > -- > With best regards, > Matwey V. Kornilov > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > To contact the owner, e-mail: [email protected] > > -- With best regards, Matwey V. Kornilov -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] To contact the owner, e-mail: [email protected]
