Re: Bullseye installer, daily image broken for cubox-i
Concatenateable images seem like a good idea but it looks like there
are none for any hardware I have (Pinebook Pro, Odroid N2, Rock64,
Raspberry Pi 3B).
Having a serial console might let you see more of what's going on.
How to do that varies with the machine.
On 10/26/20, Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org> wrote:
> On 2020-10-26, Rainer Dorsch wrote:
>> I wanted to do a test on the mainline support of bullseye for the
>> Cubox-i.
>>
>> I downloaded the bullseye installer from
>>
>> https://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/armhf/daily/hd-media/SD-card-images/
>>
>> put it on an SD card
> ...
>> But all I saw was a quick u-boot message then the screen stayed dark
>> (screen
>> reported "no HDMI signal").
>>
>> Strange is that I see the same issue with the lastest install images of
>> buster
>> :-/
>>
>> The Fedora32 installer boots and the installer comes up.
>>
>> Any ideas what is going wrong? Hmm.....just wondering now, is it required
>> to
>> install Debian via ttyUSBx or should the text based installer work on
>> HDMI?
>
> It may need new modules added for the framebuffer video output; at one
> point many years ago I had gotten a wandboard quad (also imx6, like the
> cubox-i) to boot debian-installer on the video console, but then support
> was enabled for video acceleration in the kernel and I never tracked
> down which kernel modules were needed to enable in the installer to get
> the framebuffer video back again...
>
> It's no fun playing kernel module .udeb whack-a-mole :/
>
>
> live well,
> vagrant
>
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