Karsten Merker wrote: > to use d-i/flash-kernel on the target device, one obviously needs > to already have put a u-boot onto the device in some form (such > as preinstalled in the d-i SD card images), otherwise one > couldn't have booted it
Not necessarily, see for example /target in d-i when the machine has been booted from other media than the target disk. As noted in my initial message, d-i does not handle this in all cases, requiring clumsy warnings on wiki pages to warn the user about its deficiencies. If flash-kernel provided a way to do it, d-i could easily to it for at least cases where u-boot is installed on a safe media like a SD card. > As a result of these issues, it was deemed unsuitable for > flash-kernel to attempt installing u-boot. A separate program included in flash-kernel that looks at the machine database to determine how to install u-boot and installs it to a specified device would avoid all of those issues. That is what I am suggesting. -- see shy jo
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