On Tuesday 17 September 2019 14:04:30 Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > I once wrote the "debian-10.0.0-arm64-netinst.iso" to an u-sd card, > > which booted and did a net-install on an rpi-3b [...] > > /dev/sde1 /media/sde1 iso9660 ro,relatime 0 0 > > /dev/sde2 /media/sde2 vfat > > rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=ascii,short > >na me=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro 0 0 > > > > first partition is iso9660 ? Don't recall seeing that before. > > That's the normal partition table content of a bootable Debian ISO > for i386, amd_64, armhf, arm64. (i386 and amd64 ISOs suffer from > partition nesting, but that does not keep PC-BIOS or EFI from booting > them.) > > The statement "iso9660" stems from inspection of the partition > content, not from the partition table where type is 0x83 = "Linux" in > the armhf and arm64 ISOs. > > The second partition is of type 0xEF and contains a FAT filesystem > with EFI boot equipment. > As stated already in another thread: The combination of Raspberry and > EFI is exotic.
For debian, trade secrets for raspbiab & armbian. Carefull inspection of the armbian site dies not include r-pi's. > I get the impression that uboot is a usual firmware and bootloader, > but that there are also mechanisms which rather remind me of the ROM > of my VIC-20. See e.g. I've been told that the offset locations of the files are fixed by the bootcode, but I've not been successful at getting that data regurgitated. > https://www.beyondlogic.org/compiling-u-boot-with-device-tree-support- >for-the-raspberry-pi/ > > So, unless your rpi-3b has an EFI-compatible first booting step in its > firmware, i assume that debian-10.0.0-arm64-netinst.iso never booted > on it. It has not ever used EFI to boot that I am aware of. > Have a nice day :) > > Thomas From the responses I am getting, it looks like my rpi-4 is a shelf decorator until bullseye or maybe later. So I will concentrate on getting the best I can out of an rpi-3b, and probably raspbian. Thank you thomas. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
