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

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On 2/11/23 08:01, yxcv@vienna.at wrote:
> 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?
>

The processor on the OP board is an RK3399 which is well supported in 
Armbian. Though there may be nuances of addons to the board that cause 
minor issues.

The issue with using Debian on the OP board is that the manufacturer has 
issued a modified version of Debian specific to that board and that uses 
sometimes quite complex file overlays as well as modified libraries that 
can't participate in regular Debian package upgrades.

The best answer is if the board has been supported for a while by 
Armbian then that is probably a better choice than a less well 
supported/documented manufacturer specific build of Debian.

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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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