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

Luca l.cappe at gmail.com
Thu May 21 22:19:39 UTC 2015


This is my sdcard (16GB):


root at kdeb:/home/luca# fdisk -l /dev/mmcblk0

Disk /dev/mmcblk0: 14,9 GiB, 16003366912 bytes, 31256576 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x18e9c879

Device         Boot Start     End Sectors  Size Id Type
/dev/mmcblk0p1 *        0 1284095 1284096  627M  0 Empty
/dev/mmcblk0p2       8556    9387     832  416K ef EFI (FAT-12/16/32)


root at kdeb:/home/luca# parted /dev/mmcblk0
GNU Parted 3.2
Using /dev/mmcblk0
Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.
(parted) p
Warning: The driver descriptor says the physical block size is 2048 bytes,
but
Linux says it is 512 bytes.
Ignore/Cancel? I
Model: SD 00000 (sd/mmc)
Disk /dev/mmcblk0: 64,0GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 2048B/512B
Partition Table: mac
Disk Flags:

Number  Start   End     Size   File system  Name   Flags
 1      2048B   6143B   4096B               Apple
 2      4381kB  4807kB  426kB               EFI

I've flash with:

dd if=./debian-8.0.0-amd64-CD-1.iso of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=1M


2015-05-22 0:10 GMT+02:00 nb <nb at dagami.org>:

>
> > 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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