That solved the problem!   Thanks very much for your help with this.
I'm going to cycle on/off all night to make sure there are no more hang's 
at boot up due to phantom serial port characters.

Have  you (or anyone else) seen any documentation on differences in the 
Arrow board?

Kirk
 



On Tuesday, May 10, 2016 at 2:42:38 PM UTC-7, RobertCNelson wrote:
>
>
>
> On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 4:31 PM, <[email protected] <javascript:>> 
> wrote:
>
>>
>> I’m back and up and running with my new serial debug cable.
>> Maybe you can help me understand this.
>>
>> I have 2 BBB’s one Original BBB and an Arrow industrial temperature BBB.  
>> Both were flashed from the same microSD card image.
>>
>> Original BBB has new u-boot on it and will boot successfully.  (see below 
>> Boot Log Original new u-boot.txt)
>>
>> Then I connected to the new Arrow BBB before loading the new u-boot.  It 
>> boots OK.  (see Boot Log Arrow BBB old u-boot.txt)
>>
>> Then I loaded the same new u-boot on the Arrow BBB and now it will not 
>> complete the boot.  (see Boot Log Arrow BBB new u-boot.txt)
>> The | character at the end of this boot log file was a rotating line 
>> pattern that continued forever like it is waiting for something.  All the 
>> BBB blue LED’s are on.
>>
>
>
>> ***********************************************************
>> ********** Boot Log Arrow BBB new u-boot.txt **************
>> ***********************************************************
>>
>> Running uname_boot ...
>> loading /boot/vmlinuz-3.8.13-bone70 ...
>> 5617184 bytes read in 338 ms (15.8 MiB/s)
>>
>> unable to find [dtb=am335x-abbbi.dtb] did you name it correctly? ...
>>
>> FAILSAFE: U-Boot UMS (USB Mass Storage) enabled, media now available over 
>> the usb slave port ...
>> UMS: disk start sector: 0x0, count: 0x70c000
>>
>
> Arrow BBB's support is only in v4.1.x+, since it uses an ADI framer vs the 
> NXP one on the BBB, "I" didn't care enough to backport the ADI driver to 
> 3.8.13...  Thus you get ^ message..
>
> You can force: 
>
> dtb=am335x-boneblack.dtb
>
> in /boot/uEnv.txt just make sure to disable hdmi... 
> capemgr.disable_partno=BB-BONELT-HDMI,BB-BONELT-HDMIN
>
> Regards,
>
> -- 
> Robert Nelson
> https://rcn-ee.com/
>

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