[fedora-arm] Fedora-Minimal-armhfp-21_Beta-TC4 -- not booting on Cubietruck

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 10/22/2014 05:49 PM, Paul Whalen wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> I downloaded:
>>
>> https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/21_Beta_TC4/Images/armhfp/Fedora-Minimal-armhfp-21_Beta-TC4-sda.raw.xz
>>
>> And the checksum (sha256sum) agrees.  I build the SD card with:
>>
>> /home/rgm/arm/fedora-arm-image-installer/fedora-arm-image-installer.sh
>> --image=/home/rgm/arm/Fedora-Minimal-armhfp-21_Beta-TC4-sda.raw.xz
>> --target=Cubietruck --media=/dev/sdb --norootpass
>>
>> I put the SD card in my Cubietruck and here is what I get on the serial
>> console:
>>
>> Fedora-Minimal-armhfp-21_Beta-TC4 Boot Options.
>> 1:      Fedora-Minimal-armhfp-21_Beta-TC4 (3.17.0-301.fc21.armv7hl)
>> Enter choice: 1:        Fedora-Minimal-armhfp-21_Beta-TC4
>> (3.17.0-301.fc21.armv7hl)
>> Retrieving file: /initramfs-3.17.0-301.fc21.armv7hl.img
>> 28085684 bytes read in 1456 ms (18.4 MiB/s)
>> Retrieving file: /vmlinuz-3.17.0-301.fc21.armv7hl
>> 5538024 bytes read in 471 ms (11.2 MiB/s)
>> append: ro root=UUID=b6a0bdb6-46ac-4206-b116-72e95429cfcd
>> Retrieving file: /dtb-3.17.0-301.fc21.armv7hl/sun7i-a20-cubietruck.dtb
>> 22431 bytes read in 1239 ms (17.6 KiB/s)
>> Kernel image @ 0x42000000 [ 0x000000 - 0x5480e8 ]
>> ## Flattened Device Tree blob at 43000000
>>      Booting using the fdt blob at 0x43000000
>>      Loading Ramdisk to 4e537000, end 4ffffdb4 ... OK
>>      Loading Device Tree to 4e52e000, end 4e53679e ... OK
>>
>> Starting kernel ...
>>
>>
>> and there it sits.
>
> Add the console to your extlinux.conf. For Cubietruck -'console=ttyS0,115200'.

What is the syntax for adding this?  To what line of:

# extlinux.conf generated by appliance-creator
ui menu.c32
menu autoboot Welcome to Fedora-Minimal-armhfp-21_Beta-TC4. Automatic 
boot in # second{,s}. Press a key for options.
menu title Fedora-Minimal-armhfp-21_Beta-TC4 Boot Options.
menu hidden
timeout 20
totaltimeout 600

label Fedora-Minimal-armhfp-21_Beta-TC4 (3.17.0-301.fc21.armv7hl)
     kernel /vmlinuz-3.17.0-301.fc21.armv7hl
     append ro root=UUID=b6a0bdb6-46ac-4206-b116-72e95429cfcd
     fdtdir /dtb-3.17.0-301.fc21.armv7hl/
     initrd /initramfs-3.17.0-301.fc21.armv7hl.img

I tried putting it as a line after that last, but it did not make a 
difference...

>
> In F20 there was some logic to pull in the appropriate console from uboot
> if missing in the append line. We needs this back or an alternative.

I did not have to do this pre-alpha, but I suspect this is the new uboot 
serial console issue being discussed?

>
>> I have a couple days for testing until I start travel, what should I try
>> to trouble shoot this?
>>
>> Also I see that there is now a /usr/share/uboot/cubieboard2/ directory,
>> but it is not one of the script install options.  How do I build a
>> cubieboard2 SD card for testing?
> For the 'arm-installer' script you can drop a 'config' file in the 'boards.d'
> directory and it should work. Take a look at the others for an example. Let me
> know it's working and I can add it.
>
>
> Paul
>
>> thanks
>>
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