On Tue, 2015-07-21 at 23:09 +0200, Thibaut Girka wrote: > On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 09:48:32PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > > > […] > > > Long story short, I manually > > > > "manually" == with debootstrap from a host system or some other way? > > Yes, debootstrap from my amd64 laptop (second stage in a chroot with > qemu-static). I also installed the kernel and flash-kernel in the chroot. > > I just deleted the /boot/extlinux directory and ran flash-kernel again in the > booted system, but it still doesn't work. > > > > installed Debian Jessie (as well as linux-image-4.0.0-2-armmp and u > > > -boot from u-boot-sunxi=2015.04+dfsg1-2) on an > > > A20-OLinuXino-LIME2 from Olimex but couldn't get it to boot (even with the > > > boot.scr created by flash-kernel when invoked in a chroot with > > > “FK_MACHINE="Olimex A20-OLinuXino-LIME2" flash-kernel”) until I created > > > the > > > simple /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf file attached. > > > > This is a bug, the boot.scr method is expected to work and should be > > supported for this system, since there is a db entry. If it is broken > > we'd like to know the details of how please, including full logs if > > possible. > > It appears to load the kernel, and then nothing happens anymore, the screen > is black and everything appears dead. I have not tried accessing it through > the serial console as I don't have the required hardware (that is the reason > why I haven't used d-i in the first place, as it lacks display support).
It's hard to say without logs but I suspect you are missing the contents of /etc/default/flash-kernel which according to your working extlinux.conf in your case should should contain: LINUX_KERNEL_CMDLINE="root=/dev/mmcblk0p1 ro rootwait" This would normally be setup by d-i. You can either edit that file directly or "dpkg-reconfigure -plow flash-kernel" in the chroot. You might also be able to add console=tty there to override the default serial console. 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/1437551084.407.4.ca...@debian.org
