Sounds like you might want to try flashing the new Debian images, even if you plan to run Ubuntu, just so you don't have to hold the boot button.
On Friday, April 4, 2014, <[email protected]> wrote: > 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]> 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]<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','beagleboard%[email protected]');> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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.
