Package: debian-installer Version: 20170525 The sd-card images of debian-installer for arm-hf don't have a kernel image inside, and they can't boot from sd.
To reproduce the problem: #wget http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/dists/stretch/main/installer-armhf/current/images/netboot/SD-card-images/firmware.A10-OLinuXino-Lime.img.gz #wget http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/dists/stretch/main/installer-armhf/current/images/netboot/SD-card-images/partition.img.gz #zcat firmware.A10-OLinuXino-Lime.img.gz partition.img.gz > image_a10.img # ls -lrt total 63628 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23891122 May 25 12:21 partition.img.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 224112 May 25 12:21 firmware.A10-OLinuXino-Lime.img.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 40960000 Jun 4 21:57 image_a10.img # losetup /dev/loop0 image_a10.img # fdisk -lu /dev/loop0 Disk /dev/loop0: 39.1 MiB, 40960000 bytes, 80000 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disklabel type: dos Disk identifier: 0x0eded707 Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /dev/loop0p1 * 2048 79999 77952 38.1M c W95 FAT32 (LBA) # partprobe /dev/loop0 # mount /dev/loop0p1 /mnt/card # ls -l /mnt/card/ total 20732 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1575 May 25 10:50 boot.scr drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 41984 May 25 10:50 dtbs -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 21185369 May 25 10:50 initrd.gz The boot from this sd image give this error: Scanning mmc 0:1... Found U-Boot script /boot.scr reading /boot.scr 1575 bytes read in 25 ms (61.5 KiB/s) ## Executing script at 43100000 Mainline u-boot / new-style environment detected. reading vmlinuz 3701008 bytes read in 391 ms (9 MiB/s) reading dtbs/sun4i-a10-olinuxino-lime.dtb 27941 bytes read in 621 ms (43 KiB/s) reading initrd.gz ** Unable to read file initrd.gz ** SCRIPT FAILED: continuing... I've also tried to download the image from http://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/armhf/daily/, but initrd.img is missing instead of vmlinuz. -- Diego Roversi <die...@tiscali.it>
