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Installing on Radxa Rock Pi 4B using SD-card-images

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I have a Radxa Rock Pi 4B (an arm64 single-board computer) with a 
(removable) eMMC module.  I'd like to install Debian stable on it, and 
would strongly prefer to use official Debian binaries and images.

I successfully booted debian-installer from eMMC after flashing the 
rock-pi-4-rk3999 SD card image from [1] (using an eMMC-to-microSD 
adapter and following the instructions in 
README.concatenateable_images).  However, I can't find much information 
on how to use the installer on this board once it's started.  The 
Installation Manual [2] doesn't discuss the concatenateable images at 
all and says only that non-UEFI boards might need certain unspecified 
shell commands after install to make them bootable.

I tried installing to the eMMC module that the installer itself booted 
from (using guided full-disk partitioning with LVM) with the hope that 
this would at least preserve/re-use the copy of u-boot already there. 
(IIRC this worked for me on other SBCs, but I may have been using a 
different partitioning mode.)  The install finished and I rebooted when 
prompted, but I got nothing -- no response to pings and no HDMI output, 
not even from u-boot.  Same story after a hard power-cycle.  I guess 
u-boot got clobbered after all?

Anybody here know how these installers were meant to be used?  Has this 
been documented anywhere?

Thanks,
Daniel G.

[1] 
https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/bookworm/main/installer-arm64/current/images/netboot/SD-card-images/
[2] https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/arm64/

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Installing on Radxa Rock Pi 4B using SD-card-images Daniel Gnoutcheff <gnoutchd@softwarefreedom.org> - 2023-11-01 23:50 +0100
  Re: Installing on Radxa Rock Pi 4B using SD-card-images yxcv@vienna.at - 2023-11-02 01:10 +0100
    Re: Installing on Radxa Rock Pi 4B using SD-card-images jeremy ardley <jeremy.ardley@gmail.com> - 2023-11-02 04:10 +0100
      Re: Installing on Radxa Rock Pi 4B using SD-card-images Daniel Gnoutcheff <gnoutchd@softwarefreedom.org> - 2023-11-03 17:40 +0100
        Re: Installing on Radxa Rock Pi 4B using SD-card-images Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2023-11-03 18:50 +0100
        Re: Installing on Radxa Rock Pi 4B using SD-card-images jeremy ardley <jeremy.ardley@gmail.com> - 2023-11-03 22:30 +0100
          Re: Installing on Radxa Rock Pi 4B using SD-card-images Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2023-11-04 00:20 +0100
          Re: Installing on Radxa Rock Pi 4B using SD-card-images Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2023-11-04 17:40 +0100
        Re: Installing on Radxa Rock Pi 4B using SD-card-images "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2023-11-05 23:30 +0100
          Debian support for ARM SBCs (was: Installing on Radxa Rock Pi 4B using SD-card-images) Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2023-11-06 00:50 +0100
            Re: Debian support for ARM SBCs (was: Installing on Radxa Rock Pi 4B  using SD-card-images) "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2023-11-06 08:20 +0100
          Re: Installing on Radxa Rock Pi 4B using SD-card-images gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2023-11-06 01:20 +0100
          Re: Installing on Radxa Rock Pi 4B using SD-card-images jeremy ardley <jeremy.ardley@gmail.com> - 2023-11-06 02:40 +0100
            Re: Installing on Radxa Rock Pi 4B using SD-card-images "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2023-11-06 08:30 +0100
              Re: Installing on Radxa Rock Pi 4B using SD-card-images jeremy ardley <jeremy.ardley@gmail.com> - 2023-11-06 11:20 +0100
    Re: Installing on Radxa Rock Pi 4B using SD-card-images Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2023-11-02 08:50 +0100
      Re: Installing on Radxa Rock Pi 4B using SD-card-images yxcv@vienna.at - 2023-11-02 08:50 +0100
        Re: Installing on Radxa Rock Pi 4B using SD-card-images Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2023-11-02 09:20 +0100

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