Concatenateable images seem like a good idea but it looks like there are none for any hardware I have (Pinebook Pro, Odroid N2, Rock64, Raspberry Pi 3B).
Having a serial console might let you see more of what's going on. How to do that varies with the machine. On 10/26/20, Vagrant Cascadian <vagr...@debian.org> wrote: > On 2020-10-26, Rainer Dorsch wrote: >> I wanted to do a test on the mainline support of bullseye for the >> Cubox-i. >> >> I downloaded the bullseye installer from >> >> https://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/armhf/daily/hd-media/SD-card-images/ >> >> put it on an SD card > ... >> But all I saw was a quick u-boot message then the screen stayed dark >> (screen >> reported "no HDMI signal"). >> >> Strange is that I see the same issue with the lastest install images of >> buster >> :-/ >> >> The Fedora32 installer boots and the installer comes up. >> >> Any ideas what is going wrong? Hmm.....just wondering now, is it required >> to >> install Debian via ttyUSBx or should the text based installer work on >> HDMI? > > It may need new modules added for the framebuffer video output; at one > point many years ago I had gotten a wandboard quad (also imx6, like the > cubox-i) to boot debian-installer on the video console, but then support > was enabled for video acceleration in the kernel and I never tracked > down which kernel modules were needed to enable in the installer to get > the framebuffer video back again... > > It's no fun playing kernel module .udeb whack-a-mole :/ > > > live well, > vagrant > -- ------------- I already voted, leave me alone.
