Re: Just tried arm64 netinstall on a bananai-m5

[Marco d'Itri <md@Linux.IT>]

gheskett@shentel.net wrote:

>used dd to write the arm64-bookworm-12.1 netinstall image to a 64G SDXC 
>ONN. brand card, makes no attempt to boot plugged into a bananapi-m5. 
>bring card back to reader, can't mount it, wrong filesystem for both 
>partitions. Give up, write Armbian-jammie-full-desktop iso to card, 
>mounts ok, boots bananapi-m5 normally.
>
>What did I do wrong?
As explained, this board is not supported by the Debian Installer and it
will probably never be since it requires a custom u-boot with
binary-only parts.

But if you recover the u-boot from an Armbian image then you can still
install plain Debian:

https://blog.bofh.it/debian/id_466

(As long as you do not care about the SD card reader, at this point.)

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ciao,
Marco