[Macchiato] Trying to install mainline debian 9

[Steve McIntyre]

On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 03:43:23AM +0000, Duncan Guthrie wrote:
>Hi Marcin,
>
>I'm very grateful for your help. I'll use that branch in future. I've
>been able to successfully get the latest Debian netinstall mini.iso to
>work, and it proceeded to the end of the installation without issue.
>
>However, I found that the system was not bootable. I tried installing
>the system more than once; once with root on the eMMC, and again with
>root on the SD card.
>
>Instead, I was dropped to a Grub2 shell prompt. I think the reason for
>this is that Grub2 does not support the eMMC or SDHC subsystem of the
>MacchiatoBin, because Grub2 worked when the card was plugged in to an
>external SD card reader that was plugged in to the USB port.

OK, that would make sense.

>Does anyone know of a workaround for this? I am perfectly happy just
>using USB for root, but it seems somewhat annoying I can't use just the
>eMMC for root, as it uses up one of the two USB ports.

I've just been using a SATA-attached disk (HD or SSD) and that works
very well. Do you have a specific need to be running off eMMC or SD?

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