[fedora-arm] Question about manual install of uboot - Re: Fedora-Minimal-armhfp-21-20140730-sda.raw.xz on Cubieboard 2 - problems with ethernet

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 08/01/2014 12:46 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>
> On 08/01/2014 10:50 AM, Hans de Goede wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've aprox. 30 different allwinner devices. But I've tried explicitly 
>> on the
>> cubieboard2. What u-boot are you using? AFAIK F-21 does not ship with a
>> u-boot for the cubieboard2.
>
> I tried it and something went wrong, as it would not boot up.....
>
> what device do I use in:
>
> sudo dd 
> if=/tmp/root/usr/share/uboot/Cubietruck/u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin 
> of=/dev/<media-location> bs=1024 seek=8 conv=fsync,notrunc
>
>
> is <media-location> just the device like /dev/sbd or is it the 
> specific boot partition like /dev/sbd1?

Things are not booting here.  My steps are:

xzcat /home/rgm/Fedora-Minimal-armhfp-21-20140731-sda.raw.xz | dd 
of=/dev/sdb; sync

remove SD card and reinsert.

dd 
if=/home/rgm/u-boot-sunxi-cubieboard2-20140713T154223-2e4c692/u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin 
of=/dev/sdb bs=1024 seek=8 conv=fsync,notrunc

Note that __boot is mounting as device /dev/sbd1, though.

umount /run/media/rgm/__
umount /run/media/rgm/__boot

Remove Sd card and insert in Cubieboard 2 and power up.  On console I see:

U-Boot SPL 2014.04-10690-g2e4c692 (Jul 13 2014 - 15:47:12)
Board: Cubieboard2
DRAM: 1024 MiB
CPU: 960000000Hz, AXI/AHB/APB: 3/2/2
spl: not an uImage at 1600


U-Boot 2014.04-10690-g2e4c692 (Jul 13 2014 - 15:47:12) Allwinner Technology

CPU:   Allwinner A20 (SUN7I)
Board: Cubieboard2
I2C:   ready
DRAM:  1 GiB
MMC:   SUNXI SD/MMC: 0
*** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment

In:    serial
Out:   serial
Err:   serial
Net:   dwmac.1c50000
Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0
** Unrecognized filesystem type **
** File not found boot/uEnv.txt **
** File not found uEnv.txt **
** Unrecognized filesystem type **
** File not found boot/boot.scr **
22486 bytes read in 202 ms (108.4 KiB/s)
Jumping to boot.scr
## Executing script at 44000000
Welcome to a-b-c 0.63.

Could not successfully auto-detect system type.
You may need to set u_k_addr, u_ramfs_addr, u_dtb_addr, and u_dtb
Will scan for kernels on mmc usb scsi sata ide, using ext2 fat 
filesystems with bootm

Starting menu init....

Failed to auto-boot
No value for u_dtb.  Use klist and dtblist to select.

a-b-c main menu
---------------
run clist: for a list of known board configurations.
run klist: for a list of kernels.
run dtblist: for a list of dtbs.
run single: for single user target on boot.
run rescue: for rescue target on boot.
run graphical: for graphical target on boot.
run debug: for verbose debug boot.
run normal: for default systemd boot target (default).
run showdefs: for current defaults.
boot or run bootcmd: boot with currently configured parameters.

Enter command from the above list.

** File not found /boot/script.bin **
** Unrecognized filesystem type **
** File not found /script.bin **

So should the uboot dd operation be to /dev/sdb1?