[Macchiato] Trying to install mainline debian 9

[Riku Voipio]

On Fri, 14 Sep 2018 at 16:19, Andrew Elwell <andrew.elwell at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 6 Sep 2018 at 06:53, Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton at arm.com> wrote:
> > Putting the UEFI image on SD, I can successfully boot the fedora
> > installer from USB (rawhide/f29, haven't tried PXE) and the resulting
> > installed image can also boot from SATA. It still has a few warts (ACPI
> > for one) but, I imagine that a fairly recent opensuse/debian should at
> > least boot.
>
> Thanks - that indeed works. I managed to get a debian installer
> working OK off USB.
>
> Thats the good news,
> The Bad news is that there's no mvpp2 driver for the default 4.9 arm
> kernels, Backports has a 4.17 kernel which looks better:
>
> root at debian:/lib/modules# ls
> 4.17.0-0.bpo.3-arm64  4.9.0-7-arm64  4.9.0-8-arm64
> root at debian:/lib/modules# find . -name mvpp2.ko
> ./4.17.0-0.bpo.3-arm64/kernel/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvpp2.ko
> root at debian:/lib/modules#
>
> but if I try and boot that, all I see on the console is
>
> Loading Linux 4.17.0-0.bpo.3-arm64 ...
> Loading initial ramdisk ...
> EFI stub: Booting Linux Kernel...
> EFI stub: Using DTB from configuration table
> EFI stub: Exiting boot services and installing virtual address map...
>
> and nothing else happens.
>
> Even adding earlyprintk and friends didn't reveal any more.

earlyprintk is long gone. Use "earlycon" instead. Also in grub remove
"quiet" and replace with "debug"

Try adding "clk_ignore_unused" to tell the kernel not to shut down
unused clocks, if the kernel just hangs mysteriously in the boot.

Riku

> Any suggestions?
>
> (using a USB ethernet dongle longterm kinda defeats the purpose of the
> macchiatobin)
>
> Many thanks
>
> Andrew
>
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