Hi, Gene Heskett wrote > > [ISO] debian-12.6.0-arm64-DVD-1.iso
and later: > Well, I'm tired of trying to make debian-arm work so you guys aren't > hassling me for bringing armbian questions here, I make a new attempt of an answer to your initial question > ... > can this iso be put on a micro-sd Yes. But it is possibly not intended for Raspberry Pi with 64 bit CPU. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Reasoning: It seems that Debian on Raspberry Pi has its own means of installation https://raspi.debian.net/tested-images/ This is probaly more specialized than the arm64 ISO. It has at least 4 different "Bookworm" images depending on the raspi version. I downloaded and inspected https://raspi.debian.net/tested/20231109_raspi_4_bookworm.img.xz fdisk yields: Disklabel type: dos ... Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type 20231109_raspi_4_bookworm.img1 8192 1048575 1040384 508M c W95 FAT32 ( 20231109_raspi_4_bookworm.img2 1048576 5119999 4071424 2G 83 Linux Mounting partition 1 shows among a few other files, a bunch of executable programs: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2973536 Nov 9 2023 /mnt/fat/start.elf -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2249280 Nov 9 2023 /mnt/fat/start4.elf -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 803964 Nov 9 2023 /mnt/fat/start4cd.elf -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3744808 Nov 9 2023 /mnt/fat/start4db.elf -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2996680 Nov 9 2023 /mnt/fat/start4x.elf -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 803964 Nov 9 2023 /mnt/fat/start_cd.elf -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4816712 Nov 9 2023 /mnt/fat/start_db.elf -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3720360 Nov 9 2023 /mnt/fat/start_x.elf Maybe you got similar ones in your armbian system. Obviously this image does not aim much at EFI firmware. At least no /EFI/BOOT directory is to see. There are no files in the Debian arm64 ISO with a name matching "*.elf". The wiki https://wiki.debian.org/RaspberryPi does not point to arm64 ISOs but rather to https://wiki.debian.org/RaspberryPiImages which points to https://raspi.debian.net/ Partition 2 is according to "file" an ext4 "(needs journal recovery)". Its content looks more like GNU/Linux: ... -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 30964073 Nov 9 2023 /mnt/ext4/boot/initrd.img-6.1.0-13-arm64 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 32622528 Sep 29 2023 /mnt/ext4/boot/vmlinuz-6.1.0-13-arm64 ... Have a nice day :) Thomas
