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| author | Karsten Merker <merker@debian.org> | 2014-09-13 07:22:51 +0000 |
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| committer | Karsten Merker <merker@debian.org> | 2014-09-13 07:22:51 +0000 |
| commit | 2d1e3f8d013c6f37ff96d87faef0c1e29f12f574 (patch) | |
| tree | 1d59afe3806848c96f2eb348166bae07cb1129ca /en | |
| parent | 5c618f7fe32d8ca69511d1630d4990a1dedf3846 (diff) | |
| download | installation-guide-2d1e3f8d013c6f37ff96d87faef0c1e29f12f574.zip | |
Add a "Making the system bootable with flash-kernel" subsection
to the "Making Your System Bootable" section for arm platforms.
Diffstat (limited to 'en')
| -rw-r--r-- | en/using-d-i/components.xml | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | en/using-d-i/modules/arm/flash-kernel-installer.xml | 34 |
2 files changed, 35 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/en/using-d-i/components.xml b/en/using-d-i/components.xml index 828b6a11e..4420a01da 100644 --- a/en/using-d-i/components.xml +++ b/en/using-d-i/components.xml @@ -155,6 +155,7 @@ linkend="boot-dev-select-sun"/>.</phrase> &module-powerpc-quik-installer.xml; &module-s390-zipl-installer.xml; &module-sparc-silo-installer.xml; +&module-arm-flash-kernel-installer.xml; &module-nobootloader.xml; </sect2> diff --git a/en/using-d-i/modules/arm/flash-kernel-installer.xml b/en/using-d-i/modules/arm/flash-kernel-installer.xml new file mode 100644 index 000000000..715957c02 --- /dev/null +++ b/en/using-d-i/modules/arm/flash-kernel-installer.xml @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ + + <sect3 arch="arm"> + <title>Making the system bootable with flash-kernel</title> +<para> + +As there is no common firmware interface on all ARM platforms, the +steps required to make the system bootable on ARM devices are +highly device-dependent. &debian; uses a tool called +<command>flash-kernel </command> to take care of this. Flash-kernel +contains a database which describes the particular operations that are +required to make the system bootable on various devices. It detects +whether the current device is supported, and if yes, performs the +necessary operations. + +</para><para> + +On devices which boot from internal NOR- or NAND-flash memory, +flash-kernel writes the kernel and the initial ramdisk to this internal +memory. This method is particularly common on older armel devices. +Please note that most of these devices do not allow having multiple +kernels and ramdisks in their internal flash memory, i.e. running +flash-kernel on them usually overwrites the previous contents of the flash +memory! + +</para><para> + +For ARM systems that use u-boot as their system firmware and boot the +kernel and the initial ramdisk from external storage media (such as +MMC/SD-cards, USB mass storage devices or IDE/SATA harddisks), +flash-kernel generates an appropriate boot script to allow autobooting +without user interaction. + +</para> + </sect3> |