03-14-2025, 06:44 PM
Oh, I did not know that debootstrap has config files for every Debian version. The debootstrap from Mrfix's Debian 9 is apparently not aware of Debian Bookworm. Copying over the config files is a hack and I do not know in what follow up issue you may run. If I recall, you have Manjaro on emmc. That should be more recent than Mrfix's Debian 9. I recommend you using that as a starting point.
You don't need to backup Daniel Thomspon's installer. You can clone mine into another directory.
Here is my installation from a Manjaro micro SD (last updated March 2024) on an usb thumb drive (I needed to change the swapfile size from 2GB to 1 MB in the installer as my whole usb thumb drive is 2 GB in total).
Booting from usb requires tow-boot which I don't have. Here is a sanity check: /dev/sda5 is the boot partition and we find all the files we expect there.
If I recall, previously you had some issues with running the debian-installer from Manjaro. I recommend you a) to start from a fresh git clone and b) add "set -x" to the debian installer for verbose output. Then post the whole output and not just single lines.
You don't need to backup Daniel Thomspon's installer. You can clone mine into another directory.
Here is my installation from a Manjaro micro SD (last updated March 2024) on an usb thumb drive (I needed to change the swapfile size from 2GB to 1 MB in the installer as my whole usb thumb drive is 2 GB in total).
Code:
manjaro:~$ git clone https://github.com/schaecsn/pinebook-pro-debian-installer pinebook-pro-debian-installer-new
Cloning into 'pinebook-pro-debian-installer-new'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 267, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (35/35), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (24/24), done.
remote: Total 267 (delta 15), reused 25 (delta 9), pack-reused 232 (from 1)
Receiving objects: 100% (267/267), 66.96 KiB | 357.00 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (132/132), done.
manjaro:~$ cd pinebook-pro-debian-installer-new/
manjaro:~/pinebook-pro-debian-installer-new$ ./install-debian BLKDEV=/dev/sda
>>>> Preparing to install
Submodule 'ap6256-firmware' (https://gitlab.manjaro.org/manjaro-arm/packages/community/ap6256-firmware) registered for path 'ap6256-firmware'
Submodule 'bootloader' (https://github.com/mrfixit2001/updates_repo) registered for path 'bootloader'
Submodule 'firmware' (https://gitlab.manjaro.org/tsys/pinebook-firmware.git) registered for path 'pinebook-firmware'
Cloning into '/home/schaecsn/pinebook-pro-debian-installer-new/ap6256-firmware'...
warning: redirecting to https://gitlab.manjaro.org/manjaro-arm/packages/community/ap6256-firmware.git/
Cloning into '/home/schaecsn/pinebook-pro-debian-installer-new/bootloader'...
Cloning into '/home/schaecsn/pinebook-pro-debian-installer-new/pinebook-firmware'...
Submodule path 'ap6256-firmware': checked out 'a30bf312b268eab42d38fab0cc3ed3177895ff5d'
Submodule path 'bootloader': checked out 'c95331aecdb961afbca6e6ed73393d6abe7fdc7d'
Submodule path 'pinebook-firmware': checked out '937f0d52d27d7712da6a008d35fd7c2819e2b077'
[sudo] password for schaecsn:
warning: dosfstools-4.2-3 is up to date -- skipping
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
Packages (2) debootstrap-1.0.134-1 pigz-2.8-1
Total Download Size: 0.11 MiB
Total Installed Size: 0.36 MiB
:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
:: Retrieving packages...
pigz-2.8-1-aarch64 80.9 KiB 83.4 KiB/s 00:01 [################################] 100%
debootstrap-1.0.134-1-any 36.5 KiB 30.9 KiB/s 00:01 [################################] 100%
Total (2/2) 117.4 KiB 83.8 KiB/s 00:01 [################################] 100%
(2/2) checking keys in keyring [################################] 100%
(2/2) checking package integrity [################################] 100%
(2/2) loading package files [################################] 100%
(2/2) checking for file conflicts [################################] 100%
(2/2) checking available disk space [################################] 100%
:: Processing package changes...
(1/2) installing debootstrap [################################] 100%
Optional dependencies for debootstrap
gnupg: check release signatures [installed]
debian-archive-keyring: check release signatures for Debian
debian-ports-archive-keyring: check release signatures for Debian Ports
ubuntu-keyring: check release signatures for Ubuntu
(2/2) installing pigz [################################] 100%
:: Running post-transaction hooks...
(1/1) Arming ConditionNeedsUpdate...
>>>> Partitioning
Checking that no-one is using this disk right now ... OK
Disk /dev/sda: 1.86 GiB, 1992294400 bytes, 3891200 sectors
Disk model: USB Disk
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x6d5bf375
Old situation:
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sda1 * 0 1292287 1292288 631M 0 Empty
/dev/sda2 4524 23563 19040 9.3M ef EFI (FAT-12/16/32)
/dev/sda3 1292288 3891199 2598912 1.2G 83 Linux
>>> Script header accepted.
>>> Script header accepted.
>>> Script header accepted.
>>> Created a new GPT disklabel (GUID: 989448C7-C35A-461A-A0E3-BA1B696820C6).
/dev/sda1: Created a new partition 1 of type 'Linux reserved' and of size 8 MiB.
/dev/sda2: Created a new partition 2 of type 'Linux reserved' and of size 4 MiB.
/dev/sda3: Created a new partition 3 of type 'Linux reserved' and of size 4 MiB.
/dev/sda4: Created a new partition 4 of type 'EFI System' and of size 200 MiB.
/dev/sda5: Created a new partition 5 of type 'Linux filesystem' and of size 500 MiB.
/dev/sda6: Created a new partition 6 of type 'Linux filesystem' and of size 1.2 GiB.
/dev/sda7: Done.
New situation:
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 989448C7-C35A-461A-A0E3-BA1B696820C6
Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/sda1 64 16383 16320 8M Linux reserved
/dev/sda2 16384 24575 8192 4M Linux reserved
/dev/sda3 24576 32767 8192 4M Linux reserved
/dev/sda4 32768 442367 409600 200M EFI System
/dev/sda5 442368 1466367 1024000 500M Linux filesystem
/dev/sda6 1466368 3889151 2422784 1.2G Linux filesystem
The partition table has been altered.
Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table.
Syncing disks.
>>>> Installing Pinebook Pro boot firmware
39+1 records in
39+1 records out
163836 bytes (164 kB, 160 KiB) copied, 0.0543011 s, 3.0 MB/s
1024+0 records in
1024+0 records out
4194304 bytes (4.2 MB, 4.0 MiB) copied, 0.9898 s, 4.2 MB/s
1024+0 records in
1024+0 records out
4194304 bytes (4.2 MB, 4.0 MiB) copied, 0.521563 s, 8.0 MB/s
>>>> Formatting
mkfs.fat 4.2 (2021-01-31)
mke2fs 1.47.0 (5-Feb-2023)
Creating filesystem with 512000 1k blocks and 128016 inodes
Filesystem UUID: bc929f54-d7da-4fdb-b2db-f149a463395c
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
8193, 24577, 40961, 57345, 73729, 204801, 221185, 401409
Allocating group tables: done
Writing inode tables: done
Creating journal (8192 blocks): done
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done
mke2fs 1.47.0 (5-Feb-2023)
Creating filesystem with 302848 4k blocks and 75840 inodes
Filesystem UUID: 2770faaa-860b-4c4a-a3bb-2435cfc6f16d
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912
Allocating group tables: done
Writing inode tables: done
Creating journal (8192 blocks): done
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done
>>>> Mounting target filesystem
>>>> Installing base system
I: Keyring file not available at /usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-keyring.gpg; switching to https mirror https://deb.debian.org/debian
I: Retrieving InRelease
I: Retrieving Packages
I: Validating Packages
I: Resolving dependencies of required packages...
I: Resolving dependencies of base packages...
I: Checking component main on https://deb.debian.org/debian...
I: Retrieving adduser 3.134
I: Validating adduser 3.134
I: Retrieving apt 2.6.1
I: Validating apt 2.6.1
I: Retrieving apt-utils 2.6.1
I: Validating apt-utils 2.6.1
I: Retrieving base-files 12.4+deb12u9
I: Validating base-files 12.4+deb12u9
I: Retrieving base-passwd 3.6.1
I: Validating base-passwd 3.6.1
I: Retrieving bash 5.2.15-2+b7
I: Validating bash 5.2.15-2+b7
...
I: Configuring initramfs-tools...
I: Base system installed successfully.
[sudo] password for schaecsn:
>>>> Creating Swapfile
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
1048576 bytes (1.0 MB, 1.0 MiB) copied, 0.0343232 s, 30.6 MB/s
Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 1020 KiB (1044480 bytes)
no label, UUID=b89db579-d023-4e5b-b194-c148b90f357c
>>>> Mount special file systems
>>>> Checking for updates
Hit:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm InRelease
Get:2 http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security InRelease [48.0 kB]
Get:3 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/main Sources [9496 kB]
Get:4 http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security/contrib Sources [856 B]
Get:5 http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security/non-free-firmware Sources [796 B]
Get:6 http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security/main Sources [145 kB]
Get:7 http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security/main arm64 Packages [242 kB]
Get:8 http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security/main Translation-en [147 kB]
Get:9 http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security/contrib arm64 Packages [508 B]
Get:10 http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security/contrib Translation-en [652 B]
Get:11 http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security/non-free-firmware Translation-en [472 B]
Get:12 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/non-free-firmware Sources [6436 B]
Get:13 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/non-free Sources [77.9 kB]
Get:14 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/contrib Sources [51.4 kB]
Get:15 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/main Translation-en [6109 kB]
Get:16 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/contrib arm64 Packages [45.6 kB]
Get:17 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/contrib Translation-en [48.8 kB]
Get:18 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/non-free arm64 Packages [75.8 kB]
Get:19 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/non-free Translation-en [67.0 kB]
Get:20 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/non-free-firmware arm64 Packages [5832 B]
Get:21 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/non-free-firmware Translation-en [20.9 kB]
Fetched 16.6 MB in 36s (461 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
libgnutls30 libtasn1-6
2 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 1359 kB of archives.
After this operation, 8192 B disk space will be freed.
Get:1 http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security/main arm64 libtasn1-6 arm64 4.19.0-2+deb12u1 [46.0 kB]
Get:2 http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security/main arm64 libgnutls30 arm64 3.7.9-2+deb12u4 [1313 kB]
Fetched 1359 kB in 6s (230 kB/s)
E: Can not write log (Is /dev/pts mounted?) - posix_openpt (19: No such device)
(Reading database ... 11702 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../libtasn1-6_4.19.0-2+deb12u1_arm64.deb ...
Unpacking libtasn1-6:arm64 (4.19.0-2+deb12u1) over (4.19.0-2) ...
Setting up libtasn1-6:arm64 (4.19.0-2+deb12u1) ...
(Reading database ... 11702 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../libgnutls30_3.7.9-2+deb12u4_arm64.deb ...
Unpacking libgnutls30:arm64 (3.7.9-2+deb12u4) over (3.7.9-2+deb12u3) ...
Setting up libgnutls30:arm64 (3.7.9-2+deb12u4) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.36-9+deb12u9) ...
>>>> Installed additional firmware files
>>>> Installing kernel
Hit:1 http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security InRelease
Hit:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm InRelease
Get:3 https://laban.lysator.liu.se/pub/opensuse/repositories/home:/danielthompson/Debian_Testing ./ InRelease [1549 B]
Ign:3 https://laban.lysator.liu.se/pub/opensuse/repositories/home:/danielthompson/Debian_Testing ./ InRelease
Get:4 https://laban.lysator.liu.se/pub/opensuse/repositories/home:/danielthompson/Debian_Testing ./ Packages [2495 B]
Fetched 4044 B in 4s (1053 B/s)
Reading package lists... Done
W: GPG error: https://laban.lysator.liu.se/pub/opensuse/repositories/home:/danielthompson/Debian_Testing ./ InRelease: The following signatures were invalid: EXPKEYSIG 1CC38EB6DADC6EA2 home:danielthompson OBS Project <home:danielthompson@build.opensuse.org>
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
linux-image-5.7.0-2-pinebookpro-arm64
The following NEW packages will be installed:
linux-image-5.7.0-2-pinebookpro-arm64 linux-image-pinebookpro-arm64
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 34.0 MB of archives.
After this operation, 173 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 https://laban.lysator.liu.se/pub/opensuse/repositories/home:/danielthompson/Debian_Testing ./ linux-image-5.7.0-2-pinebookpro-arm64 5.7.19-30-geadcd756eb47-1 [34.0 MB]
Get:2 https://laban.lysator.liu.se/pub/opensuse/repositories/home:/danielthompson/Debian_Testing ./ linux-image-pinebookpro-arm64 5.7.19-30-geadcd756eb47-1 [1664 B]
Fetched 34.0 MB in 1min 5s (526 kB/s)
E: Can not write log (Is /dev/pts mounted?) - posix_openpt (19: No such device)
Selecting previously unselected package linux-image-5.7.0-2-pinebookpro-arm64.
(Reading database ... 11702 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../linux-image-5.7.0-2-pinebookpro-arm64_5.7.19-30-geadcd756eb47-1_arm64.deb ...
Unpacking linux-image-5.7.0-2-pinebookpro-arm64 (5.7.19-30-geadcd756eb47-1) ...
electing previously unselected package linux-image-pinebookpro-arm64.
Preparing to unpack .../linux-image-pinebookpro-arm64_5.7.19-30-geadcd756eb47-1_arm64.deb ...
Unpacking linux-image-pinebookpro-arm64 (5.7.19-30-geadcd756eb47-1) ...
Setting up linux-image-5.7.0-2-pinebookpro-arm64 (5.7.19-30-geadcd756eb47-1) ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-5.7.0-2-pinebookpro-arm64
W: No zstd in /usr/bin:/sbin:/bin, using gzip
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/ene-ub6250/ms_rdwr.bin for built-in driver ums_eneub6250
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/ene-ub6250/msp_rdwr.bin for built-in driver ums_eneub6250
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/ene-ub6250/ms_init.bin for built-in driver ums_eneub6250
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/ene-ub6250/sd_rdwr.bin for built-in driver ums_eneub6250
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/ene-ub6250/sd_init2.bin for built-in driver ums_eneub6250
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/ene-ub6250/sd_init1.bin for built-in driver ums_eneub6250
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/xc3028L-v36.fw for built-in driver tuner_xc2028
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/xc3028-v27.fw for built-in driver tuner_xc2028
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/dvb-fe-xc5000c-4.1.30.7.fw for built-in driver xc5000
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/dvb-fe-xc5000-1.6.114.fw for built-in driver xc5000
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/dvb-fe-xc4000-1.4.fw for built-in driver xc4000
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/dvb-fe-xc4000-1.4.1.fw for built-in driver xc4000
P: Found /usr/lib/linux-image-5.7.0-2-pinebookpro-arm64/rockchip/rk3399-pinebook-pro.dtb
P: Checking for EXTLINUX directory... not found.
P: Creating EXTLINUX directory... done: /boot/extlinux
P: Writing config for vmlinuz-5.7.0-2-pinebookpro-arm64...
P: Updating /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf...
Setting up linux-image-pinebookpro-arm64 (5.7.19-30-geadcd756eb47-1) ...
>>>> Basic configuration
Choose a hostname (or press Return to keep default): usb
About to create main user, please enter username: ghost
Adding user `ghost' ...
Adding new group `ghost' (1000) ...
Adding new user `ghost' (1000) with group `ghost (1000)' ...
Creating home directory `/home/ghost' ...
Copying files from `/etc/skel' ...
New password:
Retype new password:
passwd: password updated successfully
Changing the user information for ghost
Enter the new value, or press ENTER for the default
Full Name []: Der Geist der Maschine
Room Number []:
Work Phone []:
Home Phone []:
Other []:
Is the information correct? [Y/n] y
Adding new user `ghost' to supplemental / extra groups `users, users' ...
Adding user `ghost' to group `users' ...
adduser: The user `ghost' is already a member of `users'.
Adding user `ghost' to group `sudo' ...
Done.
Generating locales (this might take a while)...
Generation complete.
Current default time zone: 'US/Pacific'
Local time is now: Fri Mar 14 17:33:18 PDT 2025.
Universal Time is now: Sat Mar 15 00:33:18 UTC 2025.
>>>> Task selection
<text based gui for choosing a desktop environment shows up>
>>>> umountBooting from usb requires tow-boot which I don't have. Here is a sanity check: /dev/sda5 is the boot partition and we find all the files we expect there.
Code:
manjaro:~/pinebook-pro-debian-installer-new$ sudo mount /dev/sda5 /mnt/tmp
manjaro:~/pinebook-pro-debian-installer-new$ ls /mnt/tmp/
System.map-5.7.0-2-pinebookpro-arm64 config-5.7.0-2-pinebookpro-arm64 efi extlinux initrd.img-5.7.0-2-pinebookpro-arm64 lost+found rk3399-pinebook-pro.dtb vmlinuz-5.7.0-2-pinebookpro-arm64
manjaro:~/pinebook-pro-debian-installer-new$ sudo umount /mnt/tmpIf I recall, previously you had some issues with running the debian-installer from Manjaro. I recommend you a) to start from a fresh git clone and b) add "set -x" to the debian installer for verbose output. Then post the whole output and not just single lines.
