It has been a while since I have dealt with that board. That was a while
ago.


Gerald


On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 11:57 AM, n2vdy <[email protected]> wrote:

> Beagleboard rev c2 has 256MB of NAND flash. Normal sequence is to load MLO
> and u-boot from flash. If you hold the user button when powering up it then
> loads MLO and u-boot from SD.
>
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> ------ Original message ------
> *From: *Gerald Coley
> *Date: *11/23/2014 12:21 PM
> *To: *[email protected];
> *Subject:*Re: [beagleboard] Is my Beagleboard dram dead?
>
> On the the  BeagleBoard we booted form SD. Not NAND. So I am not sure
> where the support for booting from Flash comes from. We only implemented
> Flash (eMMC) on the BeagleBone Black.
>
> Gerald
>
> On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 9:55 AM, 'David Batzle' via BeagleBoard <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Which is why I was thinking maybe a bad flash to NAND had caused a
>> problem. The DRAM is definitely not working now.
>>
>> When x-loader goes to load u-boot.bin off of MMC, it passes a file name
>> to a function in fat.c. The function copies the filename into DRAM and then
>> parses the copy of the name. It never finds a name because the contents of
>> DRAM are zeros. If I modify the function so that the copy of the filename
>> and the contents read from the MMC card are both in SRAM, then I get a
>> message of loading u-boot.bin from MMC but then it locks up.
>>
>> My next step I am planning to modify x-loader so it can properly wipe the
>> NAND clean. I just didn't want to waste my time if a bad flash would not be
>> a possible cause.
>>
>> Thanks.
>> --------------------------------------------
>> On Sun, 11/23/14, Gerald Coley <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>  Subject: Re: [beagleboard] Is my Beagleboard dram dead?
>>  To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
>>  Date: Sunday, November 23, 2014, 10:31 AM
>>
>>  If it booted the
>>  Always image, then the DRAM is working. Code executes out of
>>  DRAM.
>>  Gerald
>>  On Sun, Nov 23, 2014
>>  at 9:04 AM, 'davidcb' via BeagleBoard <[email protected]>
>>  wrote:
>>  I have a Beagleboard Rev. C2. I fired it up after
>>  not using it for a couple of years. It booted the Always
>>  Innovating image I had installed. I decided to try to put
>>  Debian on it. I used the flasher script to try to update
>>  u-boot (thank you RobertCNelson). U-boot would lock up just
>>  after printing out DRAM on the serial console.
>>  I tried a bunch of different things and managed
>>  to get the flasher MLO flashed to the NAND but nothing else
>>  got flashed.
>>  I had been have better luck with x-loader so I
>>  downloaded x-loader source version 1.5.1. It correctly
>>  identifies the revision of the board but will not load
>>  u-boot. Hacking up x-loader source I have been able to
>>  figure out that anything that gets loaded to the DRAM gets
>>  read back as all zeros.
>>  My question is, is there anything that could
>>  happen in a bad write to NAND that would interfere with
>>  DRAM? I had already hard coded the memory configuration in
>>  x-loader so it was not relying on the configuration values
>>  in NAND. I am thinking the DRAM is probably
>>  bad.
>>
>>
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