Try ctrl-alt-F(1-4 or so) for virtual terminals. On booting, you'll probably need some uboot. Which looks quite complicated, see https://gitlab.denx.de/u-boot/u-boot
On 2/3/21, Marco Gaiarin <g...@lilliput.linux.it> wrote: > > Someone gift me a NAS as subject, some year ago, and i was curious about > installing debian in... > > I've just installed debian on m68k, ppc, sparc, spar64, alpha and now... > Arm. > > > I've done some search and speaked with some friends here in local linux > user > group, leading to some info about u-boot and arm architecture. > I've: > > a) found the serial pin and connected a serial cable/adapter > > b) understood that in ARM there's no 'automatic hardware inventory', and > the > exact hardware inventory have to be provided via a DTB file. > > c) found the DTB of this box here: > https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,12096 > > > so, i've downloaded the 'raw' linux kernel and built a uImage from here: > > > http://ftp.it.debian.org/debian/dists/buster/main/installer-armel/current/images/kirkwood/netboot/ > with: > cat vmlinuz-4.19.0-13-marvell kirkwood-iomega_ix4_200d.dtb > uKernel > mkimage -A arm -O linux -T kernel -C none -a 0x00008000 -e 0x00008000 -n > "Debian kernel" -d uKernel uImage > > and downloaded the initrd from here: > > > http://ftp.it.debian.org/debian/dists/buster/main/installer-armel/current/images/kirkwood/netboot/marvell/guruplug/ > > then i've setup a tftp server and booted from tftp. > > > system booted correctly, and i was able to install debian. Cool! > > > Some question: > > a) (not specific ARM, indeed, but...) in installation, done clearly via > serial terminal, on the top there's some 'window' coices, eg: > > 1: installer 2: terminal 3: log 4: ... > > how can i access other term? I've looked in installation manual, but i was > not able to found the key combination to switch 'window'/VT > > b) at the end of the installation, the system warn me that there's no 'boot > loader support' (or something like that), and the resulting system was not > bootable. This was expected, but i hoped that the installer have the option > to chroot on the new installed system to be able to to some manual > bootloader setup, or at least to scp out the initrd. > > I've missed something? > > > Anyway, thanks! > > -- > La condivisione รจ il segreto di tutto... (Roberto Colonello) > > > -- ------------- Education is contagious.
