Hello everyone, Recently I bought a Gigabyte MP30-AR0 (rev 1.1) motherboard in a online second-hand market. But I encountered a lot of difficulties when installing Debian 12 arm64 on it.
I've tried the official system image (Ubantu 14.02) provided by Gigabyte first. But after I flashed the image to USB storage using Win32DiskImaginer, I couldn't see any Partition using the newest Diskgenius, which had already support Ext2/3/4. (Actually I couldn't see any partition when I load the img file in Diskgenius as a Virtual Disk either.) Then I turned to Debian 12.I've tried "debian-12.7.0-arm64-DVD-1.iso", flashing it to USB storage using UltraISO 9. However, I couldn't boot from the USB storage under u-Boot at all. Actually, I have no idea about how to manually select boot device and boot from the Debian install CD/DVD imagine in u-Boot. Finally, I tried to install Debian using the built-in linux X-Gene (Applied Micro Linux), following the instructions on https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/arm64/apds03.en.html, but there's no ar availiable on X-Gene. After getting a aarch64 gnu tool-chain, I installed debootstrap successfully. But error occurs again and it turns out that debootstrap needs perl to run. With no package manager (like dpkg, apt, yum) or compile toolchain (including make, cmake and etc.), I don't know if there's any way I can install Debian 12 on the Gigabyte MP30-AR0. I know there are alreadly plenty mails in Debian Mailing List, but they all focused on Gigabyte MP30-AR1, which is in UEFI boot mode, but the MP30-AR0 I have works in u-Boot mode. I've tried all the ways for MP30-AR1, but none of them worked on my MP30-AR0. Thank you again for your generous help. Yours, Richard Zhang
