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

[Frans Meulenbroeks]

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 at 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 at gmail.com>:
>
>> On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 7:31 AM, Frans Meulenbroeks
>> <fransmeulenbroeks at 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
>>
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/arm/attachments/20150126/bccefa4a/attachment.html>