Booting official Debian on RP64
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Hi, I'm trying to get the new Debian installer RC3 to give me a working Debian server on the RockPRO64, but I'm stuck. I'd like to know if I'm missing anything. The steps I followed are:

  • Got testing/unstable daily builds from: https://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/arm6...rd-images/
  • Squashed the images together as instructed
  • Flashed to a USB with Balena Etcher (A few months ago I flashed a U-Boot image from Ayufan to get USB boot working)
  • Put USB into the USB 3 port (No SD or eMMC inserted)
  • Installer starts successfully, run until partitioning
At the partitioning section, I created the following partitions:

On my USB:
  • 500MB ext2 mounted to /boot, bootable flag enabled (Boot from USB because U-Boot doesn't seem to support SSD's yet)
On my SSD (SATA):
  • 56GB ext4 mounted to /
  • 2gb swap at the end
On my HDD (SATA):
  • 2TB ext mounted to /hdd
Then I ran the rest of the installer till the end and rebooted.

It then starts, shows some info on the screen and then either gets stuck or throws a kernel panic. The info on the screen doesn't give me any pointers on what to do and it doesn't respond to anything I type, so I can't do shift+pgUp to see the rest of the kernel panic or ctrl+alt+f2 for other potential tty's. 

I don't want Armbian because it installs a bunch of things I don't want (plus the option to switch to SSD in armbian-config is missing), and Ayufan and Mrfixit's images seem outdated. Is there anything I can do to get this working? Or is Debian 11 on the RP64 just not ready yet?
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Booting official Debian on RP64 - by arteeh - 03-23-2021, 06:25 AM
RE: Booting official Debian on RP64 - by arteeh - 03-23-2021, 07:52 AM
RE: Booting official Debian on RP64 - by mabs - 03-23-2021, 08:16 AM
RE: Booting official Debian on RP64 - by TRS-80 - 03-23-2021, 09:51 PM
RE: Booting official Debian on RP64 - by MisterA - 06-28-2021, 01:13 PM
RE: Booting official Debian on RP64 - by kuleszdl - 03-31-2021, 10:01 AM
RE: Booting official Debian on RP64 - by TRS-80 - 07-06-2021, 10:16 AM

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