Hello everyone,
Recently I bought a Gigabyte MP30-AR0 (rev 1.1) motherboard in a online second-hand market. But I encountered a lot of difficulties when installing Debian 12 arm64 on it.
I've tried the official system image (Ubantu 14.02) provided by Gigabyte first.
But after I flashed the image to USB storage using Win32DiskImaginer,
I couldn't see any Partition using the newest Diskgenius, which had already support Ext2/3/4.
(Actually I couldn't see any partition when I load the img
file in Diskgenius as a Virtual Disk either.)
Then I turned to Debian 12.I've tried "debian-12.7.0-arm64-DVD-1.iso", flashing it to USB storage using UltraISO 9. However, I couldn't boot from the
USB storage under u-Boot at all. Actually, I have no idea about how to manually select boot device and boot from the Debian install CD/DVD imagine in u-Boot.
Finally, I tried to install Debian using the built-in linux X-Gene
(Applied Micro Linux), following the instructions on https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/arm64/apds03.en.html,
but there's no ar availiable on X-Gene. After getting a aarch64 gnu tool-chain,
I installed debootstrap successfully. But error occurs again and it turns out that debootstrap needs perl to run. With no package manager (like dpkg, apt, yum) or compile toolchain (including make, cmake and etc.), I don't know if there's any way I can install Debian 12 on the Gigabyte MP30-AR0.
I know there are alreadly plenty mails in Debian Mailing List, but they all focused on Gigabyte MP30-AR1, which is in UEFI boot mode, but the MP30-AR0
I have works in u-Boot mode. I've tried all the ways for MP30-AR1, but none of
them worked on my MP30-AR0.
Thank you again for your generous help.
So, you mean that u-Boot is almost useless on this motherboard?
It really sounds strange, is it because of u-Boot's poor compatibility?
But I've seen many DIYers using u-Boot on their ARM-Linux demo boards.
(Though I know UEFI definitely has a better compatibility on PC and
servers.)
So, you mean that u-Boot is almost useless on this motherboard?
It really sounds strange, is it because of u-Boot's poor compatibility?
But I've seen many DIYers using u-Boot on their ARM-Linux demo boards. (Though I know UEFI definitely has a better compatibility on PC and
servers.)
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*From:* "Lennart Sorensen" <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>;
*Date:*Â Wed, Sep 18, 2024 09:16 PM
*To:*Â "YOYO"<1530974299@qq.com>; *Cc:*Â "debian-arm"<debian-arm@lists.debian.org>;
*Subject:*Â Re: Problems about installing Debian on Arm64
It seems it a ideal idea to switch from u-Boot to UEFI on AR0.
Would you please share about how you install UEFI and how to revert to
u-Boot when needed? I've found some tutorials, but the urls of the UEFI firmware seemed to be invalid.
On 18/09/2024 16:38, YOYO wrote:
It seems it a ideal idea to switch from u-Boot to UEFI on AR0.
Would you please share about how you install UEFI and how to revert to
u-Boot when needed? I've found some tutorials, but the urls of the UEFI
firmware seemed to be invalid.
I can't be of much help I'm afraid as it was a long time ago and I just used >the information and files available on the net at the time. I'm not at home at >the moment but when I am I will see if I still have the relevant files, if >nobody else chirps up before then. It will be a long shot though.
On Wed, Sep 18, 2024 at 05:30:35PM +0100, Michael Howard wrote:
On 18/09/2024 16:38, YOYO wrote:I've got the files needed for switching the APM Mustang here at
It seems it a ideal idea to switch from u-Boot to UEFI on AR0.
Would you please share about how you install UEFI and how to revert to >> u-Boot when needed? I've found some tutorials, but the urls of the UEFI >> firmware seemed to be invalid.
I can't be of much help I'm afraid as it was a long time ago and I just used >> the information and files available on the net at the time. I'm not at home at
the moment but when I am I will see if I still have the relevant files, if >> nobody else chirps up before then. It will be a long shot though.
https://www.einval.com/mustang/easy-uefi/
The instructions are for APM's own Mustang dev board - the Gigabyte
AR0 might be compatible here or it might be different, be careful!
So, you mean that u-Boot is almost useless on this motherboard?
It really sounds strange, is it because of u-Boot's poor compatibility?
But I've seen many DIYers using u-Boot on their ARM-Linux demo boards. (Though I know UEFI definitely has a better compatibility on PC and servers.)
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