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

[Hans de Goede]

Hi,

On 26-01-15 08:35, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 08:25:24AM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
>> 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.
>
>    Ohhh ... This may be it ! No I'm just used to see the kernel booting
> on the DVI link, I will have to look at this.
>
>> You can also try using a rawhide image which will give you video output.
>
>  Is it just the kernel or is there other parts I might need to upgrade ?

You need a rawhide kernel and u-boot.

Regards,

Hans