Re: debian installer on arm64

2018-01-15 Thread Steve McIntyre
he second >> > partition of the installer iso? >> >> ?? Not sure what you mean... > >the iso images of the netinst arm64 debian installer have two partitions, one >of type 83 (= Linux) and one of type ef (= EFI (FAT-12/16/32)). The U-Boot in >the Macchiatobin SPI flash can a

Re: debian installer on arm64

2018-01-14 Thread Thorsten Alteholz
debian installer have two partitions, one of type 83 (= Linux) and one of type ef (= EFI (FAT-12/16/32)). The U-Boot in the Macchiatobin SPI flash can access files on partitions of type 83 and 6 with ext4load and fatload. So I assume that it just stumbles over the efi partition due to a simple

Re: debian installer on arm64

2018-01-13 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 07:59:14PM +0100, Thorsten Alteholz wrote: >Hi Steve, > >On Fri, 12 Jan 2018, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> No, not at all. Unfortunately, the Macchiatobin still ships with >> U-Boot installed as the default firmware and it's not all that useful >> for installation. > >am I

Re: debian installer on arm64

2018-01-12 Thread Thorsten Alteholz
Hi Steve, On Fri, 12 Jan 2018, Steve McIntyre wrote: No, not at all. Unfortunately, the Macchiatobin still ships with U-Boot installed as the default firmware and it's not all that useful for installation. am I right that this U-Boot stumbles over partition id 0xef of the second partition of

Re: debian installer on arm64

2018-01-11 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 11:29:10PM +0100, Thorsten Alteholz wrote: >Hi, > >after getting my Macchiatobin, I naively thought that I only had to copy the >arm64 installer from [1] or an netinst image to an USB stick and I could >start with the fun. >Unfortunately that did not work. So is the whole

debian installer on arm64

2018-01-11 Thread Thorsten Alteholz
Hi, after getting my Macchiatobin, I naively thought that I only had to copy the arm64 installer from [1] or an netinst image to an USB stick and I could start with the fun. Unfortunately that did not work. So is the whole thing not that easy as written on [2] and do I really have to build