[fedora-arm] Failure with Fedora21 and Cubieboard (the A10 one)

[Hans de Goede]

Hi Daniel,

On 25-01-15 18:20, Daniel Veillard wrote:
>    I tried over and over following the instructions at
>    https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/F21/Installation#For_the_CubieBoard_v1_.28Allwinner_A10.29
>
> after copying the Fedora-Minimal-armhfp-21-5-sda.raw.xz pointed by the
> doc n the sdcard (tried 2 different).
> And the board doesn't boot ! No disk activity, nothing on the display.
> I'm suspicious that the instruction only suggest to dd the uboot at
> seek=8 so 8k into the block while the old script from Hans for F19
> was doing both writing the uboot at 8 but also the uEnv-img.bin at
> 544.
> Starts to worries me a lot since F19 is EOL'ed soon, I won't
> have updates on my devices.
>
>    What am I missing ?

Do you have a serial console hooked-up? F-21 is using upstream kernel
which does not yet have video output. So maybe it is booting but you're
just not seeing it.

You can also try using a rawhide image which will give you video output.

Regards,

Hans