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

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On Wed, 1 Nov 2023 18:17:24 -0400
  Daniel Gnoutcheff <gnoutchd@softwarefreedom.org> wrote:
> 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/
> 

Why not try ARMbian?

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  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
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          Re: Installing on Radxa Rock Pi 4B using SD-card-images jeremy ardley <jeremy.ardley@gmail.com> - 2023-11-06 02:40 +0100
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              Re: Installing on Radxa Rock Pi 4B using SD-card-images jeremy ardley <jeremy.ardley@gmail.com> - 2023-11-06 11:20 +0100
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      Re: Installing on Radxa Rock Pi 4B using SD-card-images yxcv@vienna.at - 2023-11-02 08:50 +0100
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