Thanks! With the boot button it does successfully boot the Ubuntu image on the SD card.
On Thursday, April 3, 2014 7:05:43 PM UTC-7, RobertCNelson wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 8:46 PM, <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > > Hi Robert, > > > > I'm not expecting any help/support from you on this, but here is some > > additional info you may find interesting. :-) > > > > a) I haven't tried contacting Seeed about this. I did look around for a > > contact at Embest and I found a forum > > (http://www.embest-tech.cn/community/forum.php) and a way to file a > support > > ticket (http://www.embest-tech.com/ticket/index.php). The forum is all > > Chinese. I spent some time looking at google-translated posts there > hoping > > to find the magic fix, without luck. I suppose the next step will be to > > file a support ticket about it. > > > > b) The Embest BBB I received has the AM3359. I noticed that the element > 14 > > website says their "Embest BBB" has the AM3358. This may not be > relevant to > > my Ubuntu boot issue, but it seemed interesting. > > > > c) When I boot the Embest BBB and watch the console output, it ends like > > this: > > > > Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0 > > gpio: pin 53 (gpio 53) value is 1 > > mmc0 is current device > > micro SD card found > > mmc0 is current device > > gpio: pin 54 (gpio 54) value is 1 > > SD/MMC found on device 0 > > reading uEnv.txt > > 1204 bytes read in 3 ms (391.6 KiB/s) > > Loaded environment from uEnv.txt > > Importing environment from mmc ... > > Running uenvcmd ... > > reading zImage > > 3669712 bytes read in 420 ms (8.3 MiB/s) > > reading initrd.img > > 3005004 bytes read in 345 ms (8.3 MiB/s) > > reading /dtbs/am335x-boneblack.dtb > > 24884 bytes read in 9 ms (2.6 MiB/s) > > Wrong Ramdisk Image Format > > Ramdisk image is corrupt or invalid > > gpio: pin 55 (gpio 55) value is 1 > > ** File not found /boot/uImage ** > > > > But I can literally pop that same SD card out and put it in my BBB model > A6 > > and it boots fine. I googled around for the error messages near the > end, > > and got a few hits, but nothing that made sense to me as a workaround or > > explanation of why it fails on the Embest BBB. > > > > d) I did some poking around in U-Boot. The version says this: > > > > U-Boot 2013.04-rc1-14237-g90639fe-dirty (Apr 13 2013 - 13:57:11) > > arm-angstrom-linux-gnueabi-gcc (Linaro GCC 4.7-2013.02-01) 4.7.3 > 20130205 > > (prerelease) > > GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.22 > > Ouch! That's the original April 2013 release. Right before i submitted > a patch to Koen to fix u-boot. > > My Ubuntu/Debian images rely on at-least "Angstrom's 2013.06.20 > release" to be flashed to eMMC. > > So as long as you hold down the "boot" botton on power up, it should > still default to the bootloader on the microSD card. > > Wow, that's such an old and broken default image.. > > Regards, > > -- > Robert Nelson > http://www.rcn-ee.com/ > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
