On 8/4/24 06:58, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
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.
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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
...
Interesting, bookmarked. thanks.
Have a nice day :)
Thomas
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Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.
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