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

[Andy Green]

On 23 October 2014 11:41:05 GMT+08:00, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote:
>
>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

Stick it on the append line.

I pointed out having to do this on the list a few weeks ago but it evidently got ignored and rediscovered.

BTW I also have a cubietruck and Fedora-Minimal-armhfp-rawhide-20141019-sda.raw.xz failed to do anything useful until the uboot on the SD was replaced.

-Andy

>     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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