Thanks for your reply. I still could not get any progress; I tired 
following the dd instruction you sent in the SDK page as well as two 
methods described in pcduino8 page. I also got some stuff from Merrii (as 
Jhon suggested). I published it in a newer post on this forum.

The mmc does work once the android finish loading, so it may not be an 
incompatibility issue between the sdcard and the mmc controller - but who 
knows.

I'll update if I have any news (and would appreciate any ideas..)

Thanks again.

On Friday, September 5, 2014 6:52:56 PM UTC+3, Jon Smirl wrote:
>
> On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 11:33 AM, Chen-Yu Tsai <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> wrote: 
> > Hi, 
> > 
> > On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 8:44 AM, Jhon Yi <[email protected] <javascript:>> 
> wrote: 
> >> If this doesn't work, the only solution is to ask Merrii, or at least 
> >> let them provide one bootable sdcard then dd out the content and 
> >> search for the position. 
> >> 
> >> 2014-09-05 4:55 GMT+08:00 RFat <[email protected] <javascript:>>: 
> >>> Hi Jhon, 
> >>> 
> >>> Thanks for your suggestion. I tried: 
> >>> dd if=boot0_sdcard_sun9iw1p1.bin of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=1024 seek=X 
> >>> 
> >>> where X = 0, 4, 8, .. 
> > 
> > See http://linux-sunxi.org/SDK_build_howto 
> > 
> >>> and the board never showed any response - it is just booting from the 
> nand 
> >>> (I presume..). Was this what you were suggesting? 
> > 
> > For me, sometimes it responds, sometimes it doesn't. 
> > Maybe the mmc controller is picky about cards, or the I/O pins 
> > are undervolted. Without a user manual and schematics ATM, 
> > it is hard to tell. 
>
> I have had this problem on another CPU. Notes from that board.... 
>
> 100ohm series resistor on all of the MMC lines with 10K pull ups 
>
> > 
> > When I did get a response and boot0 was loaded, boot0 then complained 
> > it couldn't initialize mmc0, and halted. 
> > 
> > 
> > ChenYu 
> > 
> >>> If anyone else have a suggestion - I'll be grateful 
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> On Thursday, September 4, 2014 3:01:34 AM UTC+2, Jhon Yi wrote: 
> >>>> 
> >>>> I suggest that you'd better ask Merrii to give you the parameters. 
> >>>> Otherwise you could first try to dd the boot0 to a clean sd card from 
> >>>> 8kB and see if there is any print out from the serial port (just set 
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>>> 
> >>>> the serial port of you computer to 115200n8), if not work, move up 
> 4kB 
> >>>> every trial until you see the right output. Do the seem thing to 
> uboot 
> >>>> begin from the end of boot0, until you find something meaningful. 
> Plus 
> >>>> good luck. 
> >>>> 
> >>>> 2014-09-04 5:00 GMT+08:00 RFat <[email protected]>: 
> >>>> > Hi everyone, 
> >>>> > 
> >>>> > I just got the Optimus board (by Merrii). Seems like a nice 
> hotrod.. 
> >>>> > 
> >>>> > I am trying to get u-boot running from the sdcard and I saw the 
> >>>> > binaries: 
> >>>> > 
> >>>> > u-boot-sun9iw1p1.bin 
> >>>> > boot0_sdcard_sun9iw1p1.bin 
> >>>> > 
> >>>> > in the SDK that poped up recently (A80_SDK_20140728). 
> >>>> > 
> >>>> > I guess I should be DD-ing these files to the sdcard but I am not 
> sure 
> >>>> > how. 
> >>>> > There must be specific values for the seek option -- does anyone 
> have a 
> >>>> > clue 
> >>>> > (I am not sure whether I am asking a trivial or a hard question..) 
> >>>> > 
> >>>> > Moreover, this board does not have a FEL or U-boot buttons like 
> other 
> >>>> > boards 
> >>>> > - will it always look for something readable in the sdcard and then 
> >>>> > moves on 
> >>>> > the the nand? 
> >>>> > 
> >>>> > I guess everyone is very excited about the availability of these 
> A80 
> >>>> > boards 
> >>>> > and this mysterious SDK - the sunxi community is about to have 
> crazy 
> >>>> > power 
> >>>> > from a crazily modest device (ah, the late 80's of Acron paid 
> off..) 
> >>>> > 
> >>>> > Thanks! 
> > 
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