Gene Heskett wrote: > The debian version of u-boot is not compatible with the pi's boot loader > for armhf. �Never has been to my knowledge. > > The one time I tried the netinstall, which installs grub and an arm64 > kernel, it booted nicely but networking was broken. > > Basicly if you want debian on a pi you must use the raspbian flavor, it > Just Works, with the usual putzing with networking of course if running > a host file based network which I am. Debian works perfectly fine. The only problem is the debian kernel. I just copied the raspbian kernel (+ modules/firmware) and all works fine. I was going to test newer kernel and did compile one - but did not find the time to test. So the only thing from raspbian you need is the kernel. I am not sure about the hosts file. I actually used raspbian only to debootstrap debian :)