I am walking through the Debian guide UG10155 with the i.MX 8M Mini EVK.
I was able to successfully install Debian following that guide about 3 months ago.
Now however, I am seeing an issue when I run flex-installer on the board from tinylinux:
root@TinyLinux:~# flex-installer -i pf -d /dev/mmcblk1
/dev/mmcblk1: 61 GB
Partitioning /dev/mmcblk1 ...
[ 158.701442] udevd[466]: inotify_add_watch(6, /dev/mmcblk1p1, 10) failed: No such file or directory
Formatting partitions ...
/dev/mmcblk1p1 contains a ext4 file system labelled 'boot'
last mounted on Fri Mar 9 13:21:57 2018
/dev/mmcblk1p2 contains a ext4 file system labelled 'data2'
last mounted on Fri Mar 9 13:21:57 2018
/dev/mmcblk1p3 contains a ext4 file system labelled 'data3'
last mounted on Fri Mar 9 13:21:57 2018
[ 215.423287] EXT4-fs (mmcblk1p1): mounted filesystem c6ecb438-3958-415c-82db-36a3f29b9caa r/w with ordered data mode. Quota mode: none.
[ 215.599368] EXT4-fs (mmcblk1p2): mounted filesystem abc39eb0-fd7f-4bf8-ba1e-f2db7d1f1df5 r/w with ordered data mode. Quota mode: none.
[ 215.768426] EXT4-fs (mmcblk1p3): mounted filesystem 98d2bd5b-7762-4c8e-bd34-073176858089 r/w with ordered data mode. Quota mode: none.
Model: SD SMTC (sd/mmc)
Disk /dev/mmcblk1: 62.5GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags:
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 273MB 810MB 537MB primary ext4
2 811MB 9400MB 8590MB primary ext4
3 9402MB 62.5GB 53.1GB primary ext4
partition and format /dev/mmcblk1 [Done]
root@TinyLinux:~# flex-installer -i auto -d /dev/mmcblk1 -m imx8mmevk
/dev/mmcblk1: 61 GB
The requested URL http://www.nxp.com/lgfiles/sdk/lsdk2506/boot_IMX_arm64_lts_6.6.52.tar.zst returned error 301
root@TinyLinux:~#In my desktop browser I can post the link and the file will download. However, flex-installer does not appear to handle redirects and instead just fails.
Can someone from NXP please provide the ability to directly download these files and also to browse a directory so as to see which files are actually available for download, with regards to the Debian installation process but also any other firmware content? I don't mind signing in to access it but the way these documents are written, we are impeded sometimes by the lack of explicit clarity. (I will offer direct feedback within the User Guide system on that point).
Meanwhile I suppose my question is this:
How can I make the flex-installer program work with the files in the guide if they are redirected?
I can download http on my network. The issue is that the flex-installer does not seem to be capable of following the server's re-directs to https.
Thanks to another friend we were able to find that using the -u switch with https://www.nxp.com/lgfiles/sdk/lsdk2506 worked.
But that brings me to another question: Why does NXP not allow a directory listing on the URL so we can actually see what files are available and versions? Instead, we have to make assumptions and use trial and error to join the links together...
Also the SC Card from Windows guide does NOT include the additional usage information that is in the SD Card from Linux guide. This makes an erroneous assumption that users of Windows will first read the Linux documentation and then move on to the Windows documentation. But obviously, users on a Windows desktop will not first click the Linux guide link, so they will have insufficient information and the guide will not work for them exactly as it is written. Please have NXP update the UG10155 guide online to separate the flex-installer usage data and introduction to a separate page that says "read this first" and THEN allow them to click the link to the Windows guide or the Linux guide.
Hi,
Thank you for your interest in NXP Semiconductor products,
The requested SW packages should be downloaded without issues, I would look to your network settings since those packages are downloaded over HTTP, not HTTPS. Your network could disable HTTP requests.
Flex-installer helps downloading the packages from the website, you can manually copy to board from the direct links.
Regards