On Sun, 2014-04-27 at 20:32 +0200, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 8:14 PM, Karsten Merker <mer...@debian.org> wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 07:35:35AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > >> On Sat, 2014-04-26 at 23:25 +0200, Karsten Merker wrote: > > > >> No uImage is required for sunxi, > > no uImage is required for sunxi but a uImage is required for *debian > installer*. that is after all the whole point of the exercise.
What on earth are you on about? Debian installer has absolutely no requirement for uImage. uImages purely a per-platform requirement based on the feature set of the u-boot on the system. > ok, > sure you can put debian-installer onto an SD card directly but then > you will not be able to install the OS onto the SD card because debian > installer will be using it. Where did anyone in this thread talk about putting d-i onto an SD card? > karsten it would seem that you are being mis-advised by people not > familiar with debian installer, who think that booting off of > pre-prepared images is quotes normal quotes. Are you referring to me here? I assure you that I am quite familiar with debian installer and am not at all in the habits of using pre-prepared images. > although it would in some limited cases be useful to boot debian > installer without a uImage, it would not be the most helpful thing to > the most people. Utter rubbish. > may i respectfully suggest that you speak to henrik nordstrom (hno) - > you can find him on #linux-sunxi - and get a uImage up and running > that may be loaded over the USB-FEL. henrik and others such as myself > have got USB-FEL up and running for a number of A10 and A20 devices: > the advantage of boot-installing a device from USB-FEL is that it is > simple to do: just plug in to a Micro-USB, load the 1st stage > bootloader directly into RAM, load the kernel directly into RAM, load > the debian installer uImage directly into RAM, then hit the execute > command. instantly you have all the hardware available on which to > install a *clean* OS. FEL is a good idea for something to support, but it is completely unrelated to uImage AFAICT. Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1398624840.19277.149.ca...@hastur.hellion.org.uk
