To install Debian 10 on the SolidRun CuBox (1st version, Marvell Armada 510 based):
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Create 2 partitions on your SD card (eg. using fdisk): the 1st one of type ext4 with size ~200MB for boot and the 2nd of type f2fs for the system (WARNING: this will wipe all data on the target SD card.):
~# fdisk /dev/mmcblk0 ~# mkfs.ext4 /dev/mmcblk0p1 ~# mkfs.f2fs /dev/mmcblk0p2 -
Mount the partitions locally:
~# mkdir /tmp/cubox ~# mount /dev/mmcblk0p2 /tmp/cubox ~# mkdir /tmp/cubox/boot ~# mount /dev/mmcblk0p1 /tmp/cubox/boot -
Install Debian: we need to do it in 2 steps, and we'll use qemu ARM userspace emulator to finalize:
~# debootstrap --foreign --arch=armhf buster /mnt/ http://deb.debian.org/debian ~# cp /usr/bin/qemu-arm-static /tmp/cubox/usr/bin/ ~# chroot /tmp/cubox ~# /debootstrap/debootstrap --second-stage ~# apt install linux-image-armmp u-boot-tools ~# cat > /etc/initramfs-tools/modules << EOF f2fs fscrypto crc32c crc32 EOF ~# update-initramfs -u -
Prepare everything for U-Boot (note: you'll have to do that each time you update your kernel/initrd - it is a good idea to put it in a script you can run after updates):
~# TMPFILE="$(mktemp)" ~# cat > "$TMPFILE" << EOF setenv bootargs console=ttyS0,115200n8 console=tty1,115200 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rootfstype=f2fs rootwait video=HDMI-A-1:1920x1080-32@60 debug=vc ext4load mmc 0 0x1000000 /uImage ext4load mmc 0 0x2000000 /uInitrd bootm 0x1000000 0x2000000 EOF ~# mkimage -A arm -O linux -C none -T script -n script -d "$TMPFILE" /boot/boot.scr ~# cat /vmlinuz /usr/lib/linux-image-$(readlink -f /vmlinuz|cut -d '-' -f 2-)/dove-cubox.dtb > "$TMPFILE" ~# mkimage -A arm -O linux -C none -T kernel -a 0x00008000 -e 0x00008000 -n 'Linux-cubox' -d "$TMPFILE" /boot/uImage ~# rm -f "$TMPFILE" ~# mkimage -A arm -O linux -C none -T ramdisk -a 0x1000000 -n 'Initrd-cubox' -d /initrd.img /boot/uInitrd -
Finalize the minimal installation:
~# systemctl enable getty@ttyS0.service ~# cat > /etc/fstab << EOF /dev/mmcblk0p2 / f2fs defaults 0 1 /dev/mmcblk0p1 /boot ext4 defaults 0 2 EOF -
Exit the chroot and unmount the SD card:
~# exit ~# umount /tmp/cubox/boot ~# umount /tmp/cubox -
Boot the CuBox from the SD card and enjoy your new Debian 10 running on CuBox!