[MinnowBoard] no suitable video mode found booting in blind mode

nb nb at dagami.org
Thu May 21 22:10:39 UTC 2015


> Le 22 mai 2015 à 00:01, Ken Tait <ktait at venturesystemdesign.com> a écrit :
> 
> This is telling me you don't have the right image on the boot device or something in it is missing.
> 
> Is the SD card or USB stick formatted correctly? What type of format did you put on this?? I think, but not sure that UEFI reads a FAT partition???
> If you plug it into another Linux machine can you read it?
> It also needs a swap partition, maybe this is missing?? I'm guessing here...
> 
> try an ls on the device and see if it will read the files?
> 
> I believe the partition on it also must be marked as bootable..
> 
> I'm not too up on all of the distros that run on this..
> 
> Can someone tell us how to identify if this is a good image to boot?

Not totally sure but I think that:
- a fdisk -l should show "GPT"
- and parted /dev/sdxx print should show partitions detail

I copy my images under Linux with :
dd if=/path_to_image.iso of=/dev/xxx bs=1M

/dev/xxx beeing the usb key or micro-SDCard

> 
> nb, yes that would be right, you can't do a graphical install over the serial connection, you would need an x agent running and it's too early to get this going...
> It should boot and log you in as root on the serial terminal...
> 
> Ken
> 
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