Debian (or ubuntu) on a micro sd card (pinebook pro)
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(09-04-2020, 02:13 PM)moonwalkers Wrote:
(09-03-2020, 10:25 PM)pine76 Wrote: ...

From my perspective as someone who earns his paycheck developing software, documentation is always a problem. Even in commercial products its quality is often severely lacking. Issues vary from outright incorrect information or bad advice, simply outdated info, using marketing materials and pretending it's technical documentation, surface-skimming technical details, making it so you have to read hundreds of pages before you can step through even a basic use case, describing all the basic use cases but omitting anything that can help with any less trivial scenario... And when it comes to internal documentation (various wikis used by the developers inside the team) - that usually is a much bigger mess than external documentation, with most of the knowledge being tribal despite all the valiant efforts to document as much as possible.

Good documentation is rarity. AWS CLI/API docs - kinda suck. Python docs - figuring out what exceptions the code can throw is always a bit of a process. BTW, in my experience IMHO the best documentation I've ever dealt with was PostgreSQL docs - they covered from basic queries through tuning server instance and to using its C API, and you can find both specific use case howzitdones and the more abstract what's happening BTS.
If the documentation is enough to have a reasonable use of the software, it is enough. I know many open source software that does rely on user figuring things out; which is not the case mostly.

I tried a second try with compiling the 5.8 kernel using pbp-tools; this time on bullseye. I accepted the defaults during the process, this time I managed to go up to obtaining the linux-*.deb packages. I decided to install them with "dpkg -i linux-*.deb", which I issued separately for each package. I rebooted and ended up with black screen.

Is there any setting/parameter that I need to pass to the pbp-install-linux to make this work? Also, do I need to issue a "update grub" command? I am not even sure if pbp needs grub or update-initramfs...

I guess I will try the scripts a few more times to see if I make any progress. If not, I will give up.


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RE: Debian (or ubuntu) on a micro sd card (pinebook pro) - by pine76 - 09-06-2020, 08:20 AM

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