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

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 10/22/2014 11:49 PM, Andy Green wrote:
>
> 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.

Oh, I saw it, but was in no position at the time to figure out what it 
all meant (by doing it).

> 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.

What do you mean by this?  That I have to separately do:

dd 
if=/run/media/rgm/__/usr/share/uboot/Cubietruck/u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin of=/dev/sdb 
bs=1024 seek=8; sync

?

And since cubieboard2 is not one of the installation options, but there is a

/usr/share/uboot/Cubieboard2/u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin

That all I need to do is dd this .bin and I can test on my C2?
>
> -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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