Re: [DNG] Chimaera on a Banana Pi R1 / Lamobo R1
On Saturday 23 July 2022 at 14:52:37, Antony Stone wrote: > On Saturday 23 July 2022 at 13:47:00, Antony Stone wrote: > > Hi. > > > > I'm trying to install Devuan Chimaera on a Banana Pi R1 board, also known > > as a Lamobo R1: https://linux-sunxi.org/Lamobo_R1 > > > > The keyboard doesn't work. (It works on any other computer) > > Update: I've now connected an FTDI UART adapter and I have two-way > communication with the Banana over its serial port, and I can start going > through the installation process. > > This time, the network doesn't work... > So, I'm starting to wonder - has anybody verified that the Devuan images > I'm working from actually work on this board? Further update - I just put a Bananian image onto the SD card, booted it up, and both the USB keyboard and the network interface work. So, there's nothing wrong with the hardware - but the Chimaera installer certainly doesn't work on it. Can anyone kindly point me at how best to debug this, and maybe improve the installer for others? Thanks, Antony. -- "I estimate there's a world market for about five computers." - Thomas J Watson, Chairman of IBM Please reply to the list; please *don't* CC me. ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
Re: [DNG] Chimaera on a Banana Pi R1 / Lamobo R1
On Saturday 23 July 2022 at 13:47:00, Antony Stone wrote: > Hi. > > I'm trying to install Devuan Chimaera on a Banana Pi R1 board, also known > as a Lamobo R1: https://linux-sunxi.org/Lamobo_R1 > The keyboard doesn't work. (It works on any other computer) Update: I've now connected an FTDI UART adapter and I have two-way communication with the Banana over its serial port, and I can start going through the installation process. This time, the network doesn't work - it can't get an address by DHCP (my local network has a perfectly working DHCP server, in fact it's another Banana Pi R1 running Bananian). So, I'm starting to wonder - has anybody verified that the Devuan images I'm working from actually work on this board? Thanks for any input, Antony. -- Most people are aware that the Universe is big. - Paul Davies, Professor of Theoretical Physics Please reply to the list; please *don't* CC me. ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
[DNG] Chimaera on a Banana Pi R1 / Lamobo R1
Hi. I'm trying to install Devuan Chimaera on a Banana Pi R1 board, also known as a Lamobo R1: https://linux-sunxi.org/Lamobo_R1 I've previously been using it with Bananian (https://www.bananian.org/ seems to be pretty broken at present), but since I use Devuan on everything else I have, I'd like to switch this device over as well. I'm fetching the files from http://deb.devuan.org/devuan/dists/chimaera /main/installer-armhf/current/images/netboot/SD-card-images/ I download firmware.Lamobo_R1.img.gz and partition.img.gz I create the SD image with zcat firmware.Lamobo_R1.img.gz partition.img.gz >chimaera.img I write it to the SD card with dd if=chimaera.img of=/dev/mmcblk0 I insert it into the Banana, together with a USB keyboard and an HDMI screen, power it up and I see some boot messages, which are pretty rapidly replaced with a menu asking me which language I wish to use. So far, so good :) The keyboard doesn't work. (It works on any other computer) I'm using a 3A PSU for the Banana, and for now there is no HDD attached, so I'm pretty certain that power is not a problem. The USB port and an attached keyboard work fine under Bananian. Can anyone offer suggestions on what to try next, to get the installer able to read the keyboard? I can mount the partition that's been created on the SD card on the machine I wrote it with, and it contains: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1575 Jul 10 06:50 boot.scr drwxr-xr-x 2 root root75264 Jul 10 06:50 dtbs -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 23648046 Jul 10 06:50 initrd.gz -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4968960 Jul 10 06:50 vmlinuz Maybe there's something there I can edit there to get the keyboard working? Thanks, Antony. -- The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The second best time is now. Please reply to the list; please *don't* CC me. ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
