On Tue, Mar 07, 2017 at 06:58:25AM +0100, Otto Moerbeek wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 05:58:36PM +1100, Jonathan Gray wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 07:46:30AM +0100, Otto Moerbeek wrote:
> > > On Sun, Mar 05, 2017 at 09:41:27AM -0500, Joe Gidi wrote:
> > >
> > > > I was stuck at that point for a while. Make sure you have everything
> > > > you need
> > > > to boot on the DOS partition of your USB drive; mine was missing
> > > > u-boot.bin.
> > > > Are you using the bootcode.bin and start.elf files from Raspbian?
> > >
> > > I'm using the files as installed by the installer. But indeed,
> > > u-boot.bin is missing on the i partition on the USB disk. Will add
> > > that (and find out why it isn't there) tonight. In the meantime I'm
> > > doing a make build, which does not seem to be stable yet. I've seen
> > > segfaults now and then plus at least one malloc use-after-free error.
> > >
> > > -Otto
> > >
> >
> > Missing something like this, should already be present as
> > /usr/mdec/rpi/u-boot.bin on the ramdisk.
>
> It's not in the /usr/mdec installed on the USB disk, that has only one
> file in it here: (trying to look it up, but the machine is remote and
> it paniced it looks...)
The ramdisk filesystem, not the installed one.
>
> Anyway, did not succed yet to boot without SD card in it. I must say,
> from all the messages, it is not clear to me which steps from the OP
> are neccesary and which not. Later in the week I'll have some more
> time to investigate.
>
> -Otto
>
> >
> > Index: install.md
> > ===================================================================
> > RCS file: /cvs/src/distrib/arm64/ramdisk/install.md,v
> > retrieving revision 1.2
> > diff -u -p -r1.2 install.md
> > --- install.md 18 Feb 2017 02:01:53 -0000 1.2
> > +++ install.md 6 Mar 2017 06:55:24 -0000
> > @@ -56,6 +56,8 @@ md_installboot() {
> > device_tree_address=0x100
> > kernel=u-boot.bin
> > __EOT
> > +
> > + cp $_mdec/u-boot.bin /mnt/mnt/
> > }
> >
> > md_prep_fdisk() {
