Thanks due for all the help I've received from Benjamin Mako Hill and others. This post should now arrive on Planet Debian.
Still struggling with a Marvell Sheevaplug: I've now got it to (not quite but Oh so nearly) boot: if you remove the SD card it whines - and recognises the partition layout - but doesn't boot from it, hanging on a "waiting for boot prompt"
The next trick is to try an install to a 4G USB stick and see if that works, then try and get new/different SD cards to try. WARNING - the supplied USB cable for serial console is significantly short and weak :)
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Update - now booting successfully from USB. Martin Michlmayr's USB commands to pass to U-boot contain a 10 second delay to allow everything to settle down. I may try that in order to get the SD card to work similarly.
ReplyDeleteMy SheevaPlug successfully boots from a Kingston Class 6 4GB SDHC card after I flashed it with the updated u-boot.bin. It didn't boot until I made a dummy swap partition of 4mb however, since I originally made the mistake of just making a single partition and using Martin Michlmayr's boot commands--something about the hex incantation must have assumed the existence of a second partition.
ReplyDeleteYes, the supplied USB cable totally sucks.
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