On 09/06/2022 15:48, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
* Gilles <codecompl...@free.fr> [2022-06-09 15:14]:
U-Boot 2011.12 (Mar 11 2012 - 18:59:46)
=> Does Uboot support ext4, or just ext2? Or is the 2011.12 release too old,
and I should either upgrade or go back to ext2 instead?
It might be worth upgrading u-boot just in case. These instructions
are still correct:
https://www.cyrius.com/debian/kirkwood/sheevaplug/uboot-upgrade/
(It's not the latest version of u-boot, but it is one that worked for
a long of people. Rick Thomas agreed to test the latest and report
back. I will update my web site accordingly.)
I'm not sure about ext4, but we generally recommend a separate /boot
partition with ext2 and that's IIRC what the guided partitioner
creates.
I let the installer reformat and repartition the pendrive, with /boot as
ext2 and / as ext4, and D11 installed successuflly.
Lessons learned:
1. If the pendrive has an MBR, convert it to GPT
2. On a computer, perform a full test to check for backblocks
3. Uboot might not support ext4, so either upgrade or use ext2 for /boot
Thanks all!
