| snork | What would be the most appropriate way to get Chimaera on a Banana Pi M1? | 00:44 |
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| rwp | snork, the image files are here http://arm-files.devuan.org/ | 00:47 |
| rwp | However I think the chimaera images that had been made are now a year old. So... I installed beowulf to the minimum and then upgraded. | 00:47 |
| rwp | Since it was a minimum install the upgrade went pretty fast. | 00:48 |
| rwp | However note that this work uses the debian-installer which by default fsync()'s everywhere making the initial installation to an SD card very slow. Very slow. | 00:48 |
| rwp | At one time I knew how to get the eatmydata preload into there early enough to help but have lost that recipe. But one does exist. That would help hugely. | 00:49 |
| snork | Hey rwp, thanks... I had seen the file list though I didn't know which if any would work for a bpi M1. I guess an upgraded beowulf also doesn't have a kernel with wireguard in it unfortunately. | 00:56 |
| rwp | No idea. Is wireguard from the start before upgrading to chimaera a requirement? | 00:58 |
| rwp | snork, Try using this chimaera path instead of what the README.txt above documents. | 00:58 |
| rwp | snork, http://deb.devuan.org/devuan/dists/chimaera/main/installer-armhf/current/images/netboot/SD-card-images/ | 00:58 |
| rwp | Also note that #devuan-arm would have more topic specific expertise for this. | 00:59 |
| rwp | snork, Just to cheer you on let me say that I am running a Banana Pi M1 with Chimaera and everything works well for me. :-) | 01:00 |
| rwp | I had to turn off the bright flashing blue LED though. Using non-standard tools. Way too bright to be compatible with human same room occupation. https://github.com/n1tehawk/bpi_ledset | 01:02 |
| rwp | Oh silly me! We are already in #devuan-arm! What was I thinking? I was thinking I was in #devuan... Let me crawl back under my rock. :-} | 01:04 |
| snork | I don't recall "when" wireguard was added, but "prior" to that is a linux-headers-total-mess-v2.0, and beowulf is prior that. I also don't/won't actually care about the terrible blue light [which is currently stabbing my peripheral vision and trying to change my mind about that]. | 01:06 |
| rwp | If it wasn't already in a transparent case I would have put tape over it. | 01:08 |
| rwp | But the bpi_ledset.c hack is a single C file, compiled clean, and worked perfectly. However one does need to install build-essential which might not otherwise be needed bloating the image if it is not needed. | 01:08 |
| snork | Is that install/netboot link above similar to the regular x86/x64 installer? And why does everyone seemt to phone me as soon as I am busy learning? LAWL | 01:08 |
| * rwp laughs and laughs, regarding interrupting phone calls... | 01:09 | |
| rwp | The netboot install in the above loads an all in ram debian-installer image running from ram. | 01:10 |
| rwp | I am sure there are multiple ways to drive it but I dd the image to SD card, boot the SD card loading the installer into RAM, then use the installer to overwrite the SD card image with a new installed bootable image. | 01:10 |
| rwp | If I need to do it again then I dd the installer to the SD card again and restart the process. | 01:11 |
| rwp | I imagine it is possible to swap SD card images after booting and before installing. But I haven't done it that way. | 01:11 |
| rwp | Unlike the Raspberry Pi install that is a small 2G image this installs to the size of your card. | 01:12 |
| snork | Thanks a bunch for that link... I like the idea of a cat+cat+dd then boot and install. I'm going to give that a shot as soon as I deal with the interruptions. :-) | 01:12 |
| rwp | I installed the beowulf image and all was fine. I didn't learn of the older chimaera image until afterward. If you try chimaera I would be interested in hearing its status. | 01:13 |
| rwp | I'll also say that I normally use a serial port console with a USB-serial adaptor when working with the Pi's. The above installer works great with it. | 01:14 |
| rwp | Just giving a plug for not needing a full HDMI monitor and keyboard when the small serial cable to my laptop works just as well. | 01:15 |
| rwp | I also think it should be possible to create a smaller SD image of the installed system avoiding the long time it takes to apt+dpkg install .deb files. | 01:16 |
| rwp | If I were doing this three times in a row I would be motivated to make that recipe work and speed this process up. | 01:16 |
| snork | Hey rwp... well I got rid of most of my distractions, tried the installer, fought way too long with "why doesn't my keyboard work?", eventually figured out that I need firmware.BananaPro.img.gz not firmware.BananaPi.img.gz, got the "No kernel modules were found" error, tried the ceres version of the installer, completed the install, thought it was pretty slick, and finally got the blinking cursor of death. | 16:00 |
| snork | Phew! Even though there was some sleep and a dog walk in between I think I still need a break! | 16:01 |
| snork | Though, any suggestions to get past the chimaera "No kernel modules were found" error are appreciated eh. | 16:01 |
| rwp | snork, AFAIK the BananaPro images are for the other quad core version of the BPI and not the origianl Banana Pi M1. | 18:41 |
| rwp | I used the beowulf firmware.BananaPi.img.gz image and did not have any of those problems. | 18:42 |
| rwp | Therefore I would suggest that. Install just the minimum. Then immediately upgrade from beowulf to chimaera as that process worked for me. | 18:43 |
| snork | Crap, the beowulf one doesn't boot for me... after loading kernel message I just get the blinking cursor. :-( | 19:22 |
| snork | As much as it might make some folks cringe, I wrote the Armbian 22.02.01 image, booted it, and did a slightly modified version of https://www.devuan.org/os/documentation/install-guides/chimaera/bullseye-to-chimaera.html and it seems to be functioning fine. | 20:24 |
| rwp | Hmm... I have no idea. You were using a USB keyboard and HDMI display? I used the serial port console. I think both should work okay though. | 22:43 |
| rwp | I am glad to hear you were able to work through the problem with an alternate strategy though. The result should be good. | 22:44 |
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