[fedora-arm] Getting FC21/arm to boot on beaglebone black/beagle XM/beagleboard/Mele A2000

[Hans de Goede]

Hi,

On 26-01-15 08:31, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote:
> Apparently this did not make it to the list. Guess this is because my list
> membership was not approved yet then.
>
> 2015-01-25 11:30 GMT+01:00 Frans Meulenbroeks <fransmeulenbroeks at gmail.com>:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was trying to see which of the ARM boards I had lying around would boot
>> FC21.
>> I followed these instructions:
>>
>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/F21/Installation
>>
>> With these I managed to boot FC21 successfully on
>> - orange pi (A20, similar to banana pi)
>> - pandaboard
>> - beaglebone white
>>
>> 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.
>> 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?
>>
>> 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.

u-boot & the kernel in F-21 do not support hdmi out on A10 devices, however
rawhide does, so give rawhide a try with the A1000 u-boot (from rawhide)
that should give you video output and hopefully will tell you more.

Regards,

Hans