First of all (and rather than type of lots of stuff which really isn't relevent) and although I wouldn't personally want/buy one of these devices myself I have recently just been given an unwanted device -- it's an intel compute stick STCK1A8LFC . That's one of the older devices with the awful bay/cherry trail; mine was a 1GB (RAM) unit complete with a working (but ancient) version of ubuntu. So naturally I decided to give debian a try.....( btw, I can confirm the stick is working as the older ubuntu was running ok).
Unfortunatly though the installation process never seems to complete. Although this devices' wifi chipset does not work with debian (from what I read it is a PITA anyway) I am able to use a usb hub and connect to the internet using a usb device.
Partitioning (which I do manually) seems to work, as does the software installation. But the problem hits when the installer tries to install grub. I get this error screen.
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"Executing grub-install dummy failed"
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blk_update_request: I/O error, dev mmcblk1rpmb, sector 0
And then I found this which seems to be related. In particular this line from the post:
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kernel: blk_update_request: I/O error, dev mmcblk1rpmb, sector 0
Has anyone experienced or seen this problem before?
For now, I've created a workaround by pinching ubuntu's EFI grub files, putting them in /efi/boot (via the debian installer recovery option, and then to a command line) and then doing in the grub command line :
Listing of /dev/mmc* via debain installer command line:
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/dev/mmcblk1
/dev/mmcblk1boot0
/dev/mmcblk1boot1
/dev/mmcblk1p1
/dev/mmcblk1p2
/dev/mmcblk1rpmb
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ls
(my 'root' is hd0,gpt2)
set root=(hd0,gpt2)
linux /boot/vmlinuz-4.12.0-1-amd64 root=/dev/mmcblk1p2
initrd /boot/initrd.img-4.12.0.1-amd64
boot
ljones