[BPI-R2] Debian-image for bpi-r2

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Good Morning!

How to install debian BPI-R2 emmc. I’m starting in bananapi-r2, I’m confused how should I proceed.

Thankful,

Wanderley

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http://www.fw-web.de/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=en:bpi-r2:storage#install_os_on_emmc

  1. change partitionconfig in uboot or with mmc-utils
  2. Flash preloader to boot0
  3. flash preloader+uboot to mmcblkx and create partitiontable
  4. install bootstrapped rootfs and change necessary things (network-config,fstab)
  5. Install kernel, modules and uenv.txt

Instead of steps 3-5 you can flash my stretch-image for emmc from my gdrive (https://drive.google.com/open?id=1oP7jy1KrrIOifvImo2nQ59wx3_9hHkgk)

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I was using the historics you mentioned.

But with the image jessie-lite:

2017-03-10-debian-8-jessie-lite-preview-bpi-r2-sd-emmc.img

When it reboots it does not find emmc. Do you know if this image can recognize emmc?

When I use the ubuntu image, I get the boot normally. But I need to use debian clean (with few packages)

Thank you for your response.

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How do you check for emmc? Kernel should create a mmcblk0 and mmcblk1…mmcblk1 should be emmc if using my kernel or official for r2 (in mainline it is mmcblk0). If you do not see boot0/1 partitionconfig is 0x0 and have to be changed. Your image do not have mmc-utils here you have to do it via uboot or add mmc-utils

for more help we need info about your steps and error-messages you’ve got

btw. my debian stretch is a minimal installation and you can/have to install what you need :wink:

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I gave up jessie and recorded the stretch version. I used the following image:

bpi-r2_debian_stretch_4.14.13.img.gz

I recorded the SSD and then did the manual procedure that you reported:

“manual copy of OS”

And it worked correctly. Thank you very much!!

I am very interested in this solution. Are you reporting anything in production, such as firewall, proxy, dns?

Is there somewhere we share experiences?

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You’ll find also firewall (iptables incl nat and routing) and simple dns-settings in my wiki…i don’t use a proxy

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hi,

i’ve uploaded an updated version of my debian-image with kernel 4.14. also the emmc-mount-bug (system-boot hangs on trying to mount emmc-partitions) is fixed there. If using the old image comment out emmc-mounts in /etc/fstab with ‘#’

network-config:

wan: dhcp
lan0: 192.168.0.10/24
lan1+2: bridged with ip 192.168.40.1/24
lan3: only vlan 60 configured with ip 192.168.60.10/24

this image also uses upstream-uboot with my actual patches (v4-branch), without net-support (if you need tftp-boot flash old uboot)

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1oP7jy1KrrIOifvImo2nQ59wx3_9hHkgk

filename: deb_stretch_4.14.80_SD.tar.gz (+md5)

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