Hi. I think maybe you have "bricked" your ROACH, i.e. the bootloader is messed up. You'll possibly need a jtag pod and software to reload it. See:
https://casper.berkeley.edu/wiki/ROACH_Debricking John > Hi All, > > We bought a new desktop and I tried installing nfs boot on to the new > computer to boot the roach1 and was trying to bring the roach1 up. But I > think I messed up installing something somewhere and the roach 1 is not > returning anything to the minicom terminal at all. > > I am sure it is connected to the right port because I can see it on the > terminal using dmesg command. > > I tried using different client like cutecom and putty and it still does > not > work. I did a basic loop back test to minicom terminal all the characters > are showing up properly. > > I switched back everything to the old computer where it used to work > before > and it does not work there too. I really dont know if the flash bootloader > is messed up. Is there a way to check if i have done something wrong or > reset the whole machine. I did reset the whole machine using the reset > switch in front of the roach. Before it stopped returning characters to > the > minicom terminal I was getting error messages like kernel panic etc. now > even that is not showing up. > > Can someone help me in this regard. > > Warm regards, > Nishanth Shivashankaran > Arizona State University > Email:nshiv...@asu.edu >
