01-27-2022, 11:57 AM
(01-26-2022, 03:14 PM)ljones Wrote: Ok I think I'm going to leave this one for now. I don't have any experience with towboot or uboot really and I also don't have anything like a serial cable for the pinebook. Guessing really it is best left until debian's installer can install uboot ok.
I did look at the partitioning on the inbuilt emmc and I have two partitions, the second is normal linux but the first is fat32 and about 200MB or so.
ljones
If you don't feel safe doing it - don't do it. But just as a reality check - considering it seems every ARM device has its own version of U-boot, and even often its own method of installing it (e.g., on RPi it's just a file on a bootable FAT32 partition vs specific sector location on Pinebook), it will probably be a long while before Debian installer will properly support fully automated installation without any manual steps. Considering Debian for ARM has been around already since early to mid 2000s, it is likely going to be a very long while. If you're unwilling to risk (which is not much of a risk if you don't install anything in SPI flash but install U-boot onto the first 16MiB of SD or eMMC storage, like I suggested), then your best bet is to use something like Daniel Thompson's script (search around the forums here; there should also be a link in the wiki) or Armbian images.
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