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.

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see shy jo

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