On Saturday 27 July 2019 15:46:59 Reco wrote: > On Sat, Jul 27, 2019 at 12:02:18PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 26 July 2019 17:35:01 Reco wrote: > > > Hi. > > > > > > On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 12:49:32PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > I am furious (fat lot of good that does me) with the lack of > > > > tools, and information on how to use them to build an > > > > installable kernel.deb for a rpi-3b. I know it can be done, I > > > > have witnessed apt do it several times, on at least two of the > > > > arm platforms, once on an arm64 running stretch and several > > > > times on armhf for releases from jessie to buster. > > > > > > Raspberry Pi does not use u-boot. Raspbian does not use u-boot. > > > Their proprietary bootloader can be forced to run u-boot, but its > > > not worth it - by using u-boot you're limiting yourself to armhf, > > > and Raspberry Pi3 is an aarch64 board. > > > > > > > I want to take a linux-rt tar.xz direct from kernel.org, and its > > > > patches to bring it up to realtime, build it and install it all > > > > on the pi-3b, to which I have added a 120GB SSD for workspace, > > > > and a 10GB swap so it can now build linuxcnc. > > > > > > Consider installing a proper Debian first the way it's outlined at > > > [1]. Booting a custom kernel will be as easy as adding an another > > > entry to grub.cfg. > > > > > > Reco > > > > > > [1] > > > https://pete.akeo.ie/2019/07/installing-debian-arm64-on-raspberry- > > >pi.html > > > > Now its stuck, claiming the partitioing has not been done and it > > cannot install grub to a hard disk. > > Going back to to the partitioning menu I see: > > #1 primary 314.6MB B K ESP > > #6 logical 1 GB f swap swap > > #5 logical 58 GB f ext4 / > > > > This was letting the installer do the default partitioning. > > [1] specifically mentions the desired partition layout. > Force the installer to do this: > > #1 primary 314.6 MB B K ESP > #2 primary 1.0 GB f swap swap > #3 primary 14.7 GB f ext4 / > > > So I launched a shell, but there is not a /boot partition showing > > for an ls. > > ESP is /boot/efi. /boot is a part of / that's yet to be created. > > > On a side note, I took a spare RPi3 and followed [1] myself. > > First, I'd like to express huge thanks to all DDs and DMs that made > possible to boot and run a proper OS on RPi3. I can provide an > installation-report in case someone's interested. > > Second, some wishlist bugreports are in order. It's not an > installation that took the most of the effort, it's the camera that's > attached to the said RPi3. > That install nomograph says to disconnect ALL that stuff. ;-) > > Reco
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