New subject: Getting FC21/arm to boot on beaglebone black/beagle XM/beagleboard/Mele A2000

26 Jan 2015

Followup; rewrote the SD card with FC21 for Mele A1000; this also
works on A2000 (A2000 is a slightlt different PCB layout
Sunxi says on http://linux-sunxi.org/Mele_A1000
" The Mele A1000 has a wedge-like shape whereas the slightly younger
A2000 is more square"
"All motherboards are essentially the same, apart from tiny revisions"

Best regards, Frans

2015-01-26 20:00 GMT+01:00 Frans Meulenbroeks
<fransmeulenbroeks@gmail.com <mailto:fransmeulenbroeks@gmail.com>>:

    Peter,

    Thanks for your reply.

    Wrt the orange pi: I know this is not in the list of supported
    devices.
    However this one is very compatible to the banana pi so I gave
    it a stab and it works.
    (actually things like bananian also works on that board).

    Wrt Beaglebone black: that one also works Indeed I had to keep
    the boot button pressed during poweron (and no: it does not help
    if you do so during reset).

    Wrt mele A2000: this one is identical to A1000, will try with
    rawhide as suggested by Hans.

    Beagle XM: will try later (probably tomorrow), would be nice to
    see that working too.
    (btw does a regular beagle also work)?

    Best regards, Frans


    2015-01-26 9:04 GMT+01:00 Peter Robinson <pbrobinson@gmail.com
    <mailto:pbrobinson@gmail.com>>:

        On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 7:31 AM, Frans Meulenbroeks
        <fransmeulenbroeks@gmail.com
        <mailto:fransmeulenbroeks@gmail.com>> wrote:
        > Apparently this did not make it to the list. Guess this is because my list
        > membership was not approved yet then.

        It doesn't need approval, although you do need to click on
        the link
        that's emailed to you once you subscribe.

        >> With these I managed to boot FC21 successfully on
        >> - orange pi (A20, similar to banana pi)

        We don't support that as yet.

        >> - pandaboard
        >> - beaglebone white

        We support both of those.

        >> However, although according to the instructions the same MLO and u-boot
        >> are to be used for beaglebone black, it does not boot there, although the
        >> very same card works with beaglebone white.

        You need to use beaglebone for all of them

        >> I have added a serial port to the BBB and captured the boot log. See at
        >> the end of this message.
        >> Anyone an idea what is wrong?
        >>
        >> While at it:
        >> According to
        >> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/F21/Installation/Hardware_Status
        >> beagleboard XM also works but there is no u-boot data in the image for XM.
        >> Suggestions for this?

        The uboot you need to use for the xM is called beagle
        although YMMV

        >> And I noticed the u-boot dir also contains a u-boot for the Mele A1000. I
        >> wanted to try that one the A2000 which is identical hw, but it did not work
        >> (and I do not have serial for the A2000)
        >> Anyone a suggestion.

        You need a serial port, as for whether they're identical is not
        something I know.

        >> I also noticed beagleboard being in the uboot folder but it was not listed
        >> on the pages referred to above, Should this work?
        >>
        >> Lastly I noticed in the image a boot.scr and a boot.cmd file (slightly
        >> different).
        >> These seem to be some generic code to boot into a number of boards, but I
        >> could not find instructions how to use/invoke this. Is that going to be
        >> useful for me? How should I use it?

        We have a generic kernel, if you have the appropriate DT and
        a uboot
        that supports DT it's likely you can make them work.

        >> Thanks, Frans
        >>
        >> PS: subscription to the list is pending approval, please also reply
        >> directly. Thanks.

        No it's not, it made it to the list.

        >> ---- boot log from beaglebone black ----

        You're booting from the eMMC and it doesn't support the
        generic distro
        boot functionality. Hit the button to force it to boot from
        the mSD
        card or wipe the first few kb of the eMMC.

        Peter

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