Hi Andrei, Did you get any answer on this? I’m thinking of replacing my armel hardware (a couple of OpenRD boxes and a SheevaPlug) with something more modern, and the Pine64+ looks like a good candidate, but I’ll need to be able to install Debian.
More general question — What is the status of support for the ARM64 at this point in time? Is there an on-going project that I can help test? Thanks! Rick > On May 1, 2019, at 9:27 AM, Andrei POPESCU <andreimpope...@gmail.com> wrote: > > [I seem to recall a previous discussion about this but can't find it > anymore] > > Hi, > > I've been trying to install Debian on the Pine64+ using the Debian > Installer (Buster RC1). > > This is mostly for educational/backup purposes as I already have a > working buster installed with debootstrap. > > To make things more interesting, I don't have serial console, only a > HDMI screen (TV), USB keyboard and internet access. > > Steps > > 1. Write pine64_plus.img.gz to an SD card > 2. Write an .iso to a USB stick (I used the netinst) > 3. Boot from the SD card with the USB stick inserted > > The system boots, successfully probes the USB stick and displays the > GRUB menu on the HDMI output (with some strange characters instead of > bars, but still readable). > > At this point I'm stuck because the USB keyboard is not active > (something missing in GRUB?) and GRUB has no timeout. > > As the filesystem on the stick is ISO9660 I also don't know of an easy > method to edit /boot/grub/grub.cfg to add a timeout (I'm assuming the > USB keyboard will work as soon as the D-I kernel is booted). > > In theory it should also be possible (and nicer) to just create some > filesystem on the SD card (writing the image already creates a > partition) and copy the necessary files to start D-I there (which > ones?). > > Suggestions? > > Kind regards, > Andrei > -- > http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser