On Wed, Jan 27, 2021, at 11:15 PM, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On 2021-01-27, Rick Thomas wrote: > > I'm trying to install Debian Buster [1] on my Cubox-i4P with an eSATA > > drive. Everything seems to be fine, but when it comes time to reboot, > > it boots into the installer again, rather than the installed system. > > > > Here's what I did, and what I observed: > > > > *) I downloaded the two parts of the SDcard install image from [1] and > > followed the instructions in the README to create a 4GB (I didn't have > > anything smaller) SDcard installer. > > *) I connected the eSATA disk and plugged the SDcard into the Cubox and > > powered it up. > > *) It booted off the SD-card into the installer as expected. > ... > > *) But when the reboot happened, I found myself back in the installer. > > *) I tried removing the SDcard and rebooting, but it failed to boot -- > > after power-on nothing happened. > > > What I hoped would happen with the eSATA drive was that the installer > > would write the boot firmware (u-boot, etc) to the SDcard, and > > configure it to get /boot, root, /home, swap off the eSATA. > > U-boot can only be loaded from microSD on that platform, as far as I'm > aware. > > You can use the bootloader from the installer image, just delete the > boot.scr and/or extlinux.conf from the partition on the installer image, > or make another partition on the microSD card, and mark it bootable, but > don't put anything on it. Then u-boot should fall back to loading the > kernel+initrd+device-tree off of the eSATA. > > If you interrupt the boot process and get to a u-boot prompt, you should > be able to see the order of devices u-boot tries to boot from with: > > printenv boot_targets > > > Now that bullseye is in the early phases of freeze, please consider > testing bullseye, too, if you can! :)
Thanks! This sounds like it ought to work. I'll give it a try. For bullseye, where should I download the latest installer image from? I'd love to give it a try as well! Rick
