An unofficial Debian Installer for Pinebook Pro

[Jeremiah Cornelius]

I fail booting a selfcompiled kernel:

I built and installed Manajaro's latest kernel from source

Code:

make -j2 bindeb-pkg && apt-get install ../linux-image-5.5.0-rc7-1-pinebookpro-arm64+_5.5.0-rc7-1-pinebookpro-arm64+-5_arm64.deb

For apt-install, a lot of messages passed by, initrd was receated and even extlinux.conf got automatically updated

Code:

$ cat /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf
## /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf
##
## IMPORTANT WARNING
##
## The configuration of this file is generated automatically.
## Do not edit this file manually, use: u-boot-update

default l0
menu title U-Boot menu
prompt 0
timeout 10


label l0
    menu label Debian GNU/Linux kernel 5.5.0-rc7-1-pinebookpro-arm64+
    linux /vmlinuz-5.5.0-rc7-1-pinebookpro-arm64+
    initrd /initrd.img-5.5.0-rc7-1-pinebookpro-arm64+
    fdt /rk3399-pinebook-pro.dtb
    append root=LABEL=mmcblk1-RootFS console=ttyS2,1500000n8 console=tty0 ro maxcpus=4 coherent_pool=1M

label l0r
    menu label Debian GNU/Linux kernel 5.5.0-rc7-1-pinebookpro-arm64+ (rescue target)
    linux /vmlinuz-5.5.0-rc7-1-pinebookpro-arm64+
    initrd /initrd.img-5.5.0-rc7-1-pinebookpro-arm64+
    fdt /rk3399-pinebook-pro.dtb
    append root=LABEL=mmcblk1-RootFS console=ttyS2,1500000n8 console=tty0 ro maxcpus=4 coherent_pool=1M single
    

label l1
    menu label Debian GNU/Linux kernel 5.4.2-2-pinebookpro-arm64
    linux /vmlinuz-5.4.2-2-pinebookpro-arm64
    initrd /initrd.img-5.4.2-2-pinebookpro-arm64
    fdt /rk3399-pinebook-pro.dtb
    append root=LABEL=mmcblk1-RootFS console=ttyS2,1500000n8 console=tty0 ro maxcpus=4 coherent_pool=1M

label l1r
    menu label Debian GNU/Linux kernel 5.4.2-2-pinebookpro-arm64 (rescue target)
    linux /vmlinuz-5.4.2-2-pinebookpro-arm64
    initrd /initrd.img-5.4.2-2-pinebookpro-arm64
    fdt /rk3399-pinebook-pro.dtb
    append root=LABEL=mmcblk1-RootFS console=ttyS2,1500000n8 console=tty0 ro maxcpus=4 coherent_pool=1M single

    

Code:

$ dir /boot/
total 50697
drwxr-xr-x  5 root root     1024 Jan 25 14:06 .
drwxr-xr-x 21 root root     4096 Jan 23 00:16 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   204751 Dec 13 04:21 config-5.4.2-2-pinebookpro-arm64
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   204401 Jan 24 21:44 config-5.5.0-rc7-1-pinebookpro-arm64+
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root      512 Dec 31  1969 efi
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root     1024 Jan 25 14:06 extlinux
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  6295863 Jan 24 21:19 initrd.img-5.4.2-2-pinebookpro-arm64
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  6422051 Jan 25 14:06 initrd.img-5.5.0-rc7-1-pinebookpro-arm64+
drwx------  2 root root    12288 Jan 22 23:30 lost+found
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    62112 Jan 25 14:06 rk3399-pinebook-pro.dtb
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    60795 Jan 25 14:06 rk3399-pinebook-pro.dtb.bak
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  4416507 Dec 13 04:21 System.map-5.4.2-2-pinebookpro-arm64
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  4807055 Jan 24 21:44 System.map-5.5.0-rc7-1-pinebookpro-arm64+
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 20220416 Dec 13 04:21 vmlinuz-5.4.2-2-pinebookpro-arm64
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  9196524 Jan 24 21:44 vmlinuz-5.5.0-rc7-1-pinebookpro-arm64+

Code:

$ dir /lib/modules/
total 16
drwxr-xr-x  4 root root 4096 Jan 25 14:05 .
drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 4096 Jan 25 10:27 ..
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 4096 Jan 23 00:23 5.4.2-2-pinebookpro-arm64
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 4096 Jan 25 14:05 5.5.0-rc7-1-pinebookpro-arm64+

I had a quick look into the new initrd and it looks reasonable.

A reboot booted straight into the previous kernel

Code:

$ uname -a
Linux pinebook-pro 5.4.2-2-pinebookpro-arm64 #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Jan 19 22:43:25 UTC 2020 aarch64 GNU/Linux

How is that possible?

Off the top of my head? Are there symlinks that need updating to /linux and /initrd from /boot?