Package: flash-kernel Version: 3.87 Severity: normal Therefore you usually have to setup an SD card with the appropriate u-boot version for your particular device (see below) as a prerequisite for installing Debian. If you use the pre-made SD card images with the installer, this step is not necessary, as these images already contain u-boot. -- https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Allwinner
This seems to fall squarely in flash-kernel's wheelhouse, since it already handles the other parts of u-boot installation, and it knows the name of the board being installed. The d-i SD card images avoid the problem, but they are only one way to install; there are even other ways to use d-i to install that need this manual step first. The main difficulty in putting it in flash-kernel is that it might be installed in a chroot in a situation where it should not be altering the boot sector of the host's disk. So, something like grub-installer seems to be called for, so the user specifies the device to install to. A utility in flash-kernel would be much nicer than needing to puzzle out dd commands from README.Debian files and hope you got it right. I'm currently having to embed those dd commands inside propellor; they're also embedded inside debian-installer (build/boot/arm/u-boot-image-config). -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.13.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) -- see shy jo
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