failure trying to install bullseye on Cubox-i

[Rick Thomas]

I'm experimenting with installing Bullseye on a Cubox-i4Pro I keep around for testing purposes.

I followed the instructions at:
http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/bullseye/main/installer-armhf/current/images/netboot/SD-card-images/README.concatenateable_images

Then I dd'ed the resulting complete image onto an 8GB microSD card, which I then inserted into the microSD slot in the Cubox-I. When I applied power, I got the attached log on the serial console.

Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong? Is this a bug in the installer? If so, what's the best way for me to volunteer to help as a tester in debugging it.

Rick

[Rick Thomas]

Post by Rick Thomas
I'm experimenting with installing Bullseye on a Cubox-i4Pro I keep
around for testing purposes.
http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/bullseye/main/installer-armhf/current/images/netboot/SD-card-images/README.concatenateable_images
Then I dd'ed the resulting complete image onto an 8GB microSD card,
which I then inserted into the microSD slot in the Cubox-I. When I
applied power, I got the attached log on the serial console.
Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong? Is this a bug in the installer?
If so, what's the best way for me to volunteer to help as a tester in
debugging it.
Rick
* screenlog

In case it helps, the two components I used in this experiment are:

http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/bullseye/main/installer-armhf/20210731+deb11u4/images/netboot/SD-card-images/firmware.MX6_Cubox-i.img.gz

and

http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/bullseye/main/installer-armhf/20210731+deb11u4/images/netboot/SD-card-images/partition.img.gz

On the web page, these files are dated 2022-07-05 15:57 .

Any clues are appreciated!
Rick

[Rick Thomas]

Well, I re-downloaded and re-copied the resulting complete image to a micro-SD card by a different manufacturer, and lo and behold, it all works this time!

Sigh!
Sorry for all the noise,
Rick

Post by Rick Thomas

Post by Rick Thomas
I'm experimenting with installing Bullseye on a Cubox-i4Pro I keep
around for testing purposes.
http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/bullseye/main/installer-armhf/current/images/netboot/SD-card-images/README.concatenateable_images
Then I dd'ed the resulting complete image onto an 8GB microSD card,
which I then inserted into the microSD slot in the Cubox-I. When I
applied power, I got the attached log on the serial console.
Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong? Is this a bug in the installer?
If so, what's the best way for me to volunteer to help as a tester in
debugging it.
Rick
* screenlog

http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/bullseye/main/installer-armhf/20210731+deb11u4/images/netboot/SD-card-images/firmware.MX6_Cubox-i.img.gz
and
http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/bullseye/main/installer-armhf/20210731+deb11u4/images/netboot/SD-card-images/partition.img.gz
On the web page, these files are dated 2022-07-05 15:57 .
Any clues are appreciated!
Rick

[Vagrant Cascadian]

Post by Rick Thomas
I'm experimenting with installing Bullseye on a Cubox-i4Pro I keep around for testing purposes.
http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/bullseye/main/installer-armhf/current/images/netboot/SD-card-images/README.concatenateable_images
Then I dd'ed the resulting complete image onto an 8GB microSD card,
which I then inserted into the microSD slot in the Cubox-I. When I
applied power, I got the attached log on the serial console.

Those sound like reasonable steps...

What's confusing is your screen logs shows a u-boot from bookworm/sid:

U-Boot SPL 2022.04+dfsg-2+b1 (May 14 2022 - 21:25:25 +0000)

So either the images you downloaded were not the images you thought you
downloaded... or you saved the wrong screenlog file... or the bullseye
images contain u-boot from the wrong release... or somehow you're
loading u-boot from some other media, such as eMMC?

I actually need to reinstall a cuboxi4pro maybe by the end of the week,
so I will test it myself then.


live well,
vagrant