philpagel/debian-headless

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HrGaertner commented

Hello nice project. But i do not get it to run with arm hf.

sed "s/ARCH/armv7/" isolinux.cfg.template > tmp/isolinux/isolinux.cfg /bin/sh: 1: cannot create tmp/isolinux/isolinux.cfg: Directory nonexistent make: *** [Makefile:41: isolinux] Fehler 2

Thanks

philpagel commented

Hi,

I have never tried this on ARM and I'm afraid it is quite possible that it does not work on ARM at all. To my knowledge, ARM machines, like the raspberry pi, use a very different boot process compared to intel/AMD machines. Isolinux//syslinux is a bootloader for the intel/amd world and I am not sure what the ARM equivalent would be.

That said, can you give more details? E.g. what image are you using what is the target machine, what is your desired installation media and target disk?

Maybe there is a way to make this work in a different way as I think recent versions of the PI support booting off media other than SD cards. However, I have never tried that and would have to check if I have a recent PI lying around.

philpagel commented

Just adding some links:

https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/raspberrypi/bootmodes/msd.md
https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/raspberrypi/bootmodes/README.md

These will not fixe the issue. I am keeping these here for reference for when I find time to look into this, at some point.

HrGaertner commented

Sorry i found an other solution. But if you want i can still help if you tell me how

philpagel commented
HrGaertner commented

I used a wd my cloud mirror gen2. I flashed following to this instructions the cloud with synology dsm but it did not work correctly and i could not access the device and reset it (web interface crashed ssh not enabled). I hoped I could boot from a USB Stick but it does not seem like that. The solution was to enter new hdds. So I did not need Debian headless and now i have ubuntu on my cloud which just runs fine. And that is why I do not need the image anymore. The Ubuntu image was installed on an other arm hf device and after this it was stuffed into a .tar.gz so all the others could install it on their cloud (also see the instructions in the link above).

Thanks for your interest

P.S. Your Website is pretty cool

philpagel commented

After some consideration I believe that ARM support is not easily possible within the same framework. Especially a I know very little about the ARM boot process. For all i know it is probably too different from Intel architectures.