Dear All, My "Arndale" board finally arrived recently and I have been trying to get it to do something useful.
It ships with Android in its eMMC and that seems to work OK. It can also boot from a micro-SD card and I've successfully booted the Ubuntu image from here: https://wiki.linaro.org/Boards/Arndale/Setup/EnterpriseUbuntuServer . I would like to install Debian armhf on the SATA SSD. I have attempted to do this by: On the Ubuntu system: - Formatting the SSD - Debootstrapping onto it - Making some minor changes to /etc files In U-Boot: - Changing the kernel command line to set root=/dev/sda1 - Booting using the Linaro Ubuntu kernel This has worked, and I have got as far as a login prompt, about twice. But normally the boot process seems to stop at some random point, maybe when "Activating swapfile" or "Cleaning up temporary files". Sometimes it pauses for a bit, then makes some more progress, then stops more permanently. One possibility is that the SATA system has problems. I will probably try copying the Linaro Ubunutu root image onto the SSD, and/or copy the Debian root onto the eMMC, in order to check that. But the fact that I got no SATA problems while debootstrapping makes me think that that is not the problem. So my question for this list is: should I be able to use this Linaro Ubuntu kernel (and their U-Boot) to boot a Debian armhf system? Are there any kernel differences between the two that I should worry about? This kernel seems to be non-modular, which surprised me, but ought to make this stuff work more easily. Is there an "official" Debian kernel suitable for this board somewhere that I could try instead? Thanks for any hints! Phil. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/loom.20130414t185840-...@post.gmane.org
