Hi,

What I notice here is that the board acquires a DHCP address 10.206.153.237 and 
your tftp server IP address is 129.219.110.130, both are in different network. 
So you will never ever able to down load the u-Image to your board. You needs 
to get help from your network administrator to set this right or you have to do 
it yourself.

Mkimage binary is not in the path. Set your path to include the directory name, 
where you have the binary mkimage.



1.      Since you have specified the tftp root as /var/lib/tftpboot, you have 
to specify only the file name for environment variable bootfile (u-boot 
environment variable)

2.      TFTP server address is ip address of the machine, where you have 
installed the TFTP server with tftp configuration mentioned  in 
/etc/xinetd.d/tftp.

3.      Uimage is not built as you do not have the path for mkimage.

Hope this helps.

With best regards,

Venkatachala Upadhya| Extn: 65395|
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Abhishek Botadra
Sent: 18 March, 2009 5:20 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Problem in booting via TFTP using NFS File System in DM 6467


I am using TMS320DM6467 DVEVM v1.40. I have problem in booting via TFTP using 
NFS File System.

Here are my environment variables:

bootdelay=3
baudrate=115200
stdin=serial
stdout=serial
stderr=serial
ethaddr=00:0e:99:02:b3:a9
bootcmd=dhcp;bootm
serverip=10.206.153.230
rootpath=/home/<useracct>/work/workdir/filesys
nfshost=10.206.153.230
bootargs=console=ttyS0,115200n8 noinitrd rw ip=dhcp root=/dev/nfs 
nfsroot=10.206.153.230:/home/<useracct>/work/workdir/filesys,nolock mem=120M 
davincihd_capture.channel0_numbuffers=4
bootfile=uImage

Here is what gets displayed:

BOOTP broadcast 1
*** Unhandled DHCP Option in OFFER/ACK: 44
*** Unhandled DHCP Option in OFFER/ACK: 46
*** Unhandled DHCP Option in OFFER/ACK: 44
*** Unhandled DHCP Option in OFFER/ACK: 46
DHCP client bound to address 10.206.153.237
TFTP from server 129.219.110.130; our IP address is 10.206.153.237; sending 
through gateway 10.206.152.1
Filename 'uImage'.
Load address: 0x80700000
Loading: T T

And then it tries, exceeds the limit, tries again and this thing goes for ever.


I have copied my uImage in /var/lib/tftpboot.

And here is the /etc/xinetd.d/tftp file:

service tftp
{
        disable = no
        socket_type             = dgram
        protocol                = udp
        wait                    = yes
        user                    = root
        server                  = /usr/sbin/in.tftpd
        server_args             = -s /var/lib/tftpboot
        per_source              = 11
        cps                     = 100 2
        flags                   = IPv4
}

I have few things to make clear:

(1) What should I specify as the bootfile?
- It should be just 'uImage' or the complete path where the image is stored, 
i.e. /var/lib/tftpboot/uImage

(2) What will be the TFTP server's IP address?
- I specify it as my host PC IP address. Also, when I give the boot command it 
says TFTP from server 129.219.110.130, I don't know from where it gets this IP 
address.

(3) When I am compiling the kernel using make ARCH=arm 
CROSS_COMPILE=arm_v5t_le- uImage I am getting the following output:

CHK     include/linux/version.h
  SPLIT   include/linux/autoconf.h -> include/config/*
  SYMLINK include/asm-arm/arch -> include/asm-arm/arch-davinci
make[1]: `arch/arm/kernel/asm-offsets.s' is up to date.
make[1]: `include/asm-arm/mach-types.h' is up to date.
  CHK     include/linux/compile.h
  CHK     usr/initramfs_list
  Kernel: arch/arm/boot/Image is ready
  Kernel: arch/arm/boot/zImage is ready
  UIMAGE  arch/arm/boot/uImage
"mkimage" command not found - U-Boot images will not be built
  Image arch/arm/boot/uImage is ready

So, it creates uImage but says U-Boot images won't be built. Is this is a 
problem?

Also, I am making sure that TFTP and NFS services are enabled in my PC.
I am following the 'Getting started guide' provided with the DM 6467 EVM.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Abhishek


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