[fedora-arm] Can rawhide image boot on Beagle Bone Black?

[Zamir SUN]

Hi Robert,

On 07/16/2015 10:24 PM, Robert Nelson wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 8:40 AM, Zamir SUN <zsun at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>> Hi team,
>> I am planning to test Fedora 23 ARM on Beagle Bone black from the early
>> image. So I downloaded Fedora-Xfce-armhfp-23-20150715-sda.raw.xz from
>> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=10371084 and flash it
>> into a TF card.
>>
>> During the flashing, I find such error:
>>
>> = Writing image complete!
>> = Writing MLO for beaglebone....
>> dd: failed to open ‘/tmp/root/usr/share/uboot/beaglebone/MLO’: No such file
>> or directory
>> = Writing u-boot.img for beaglebone....
>> dd: failed to open ‘/tmp/root/usr/share/uboot/beaglebone/u-boot.img’: No
>> such file or directory
>
> Looks like your task above, missed these crucial boot files..
>
Thanks for your reminder.
I checked and find that on F22 the file lies in beaglebone, but in F23 
the directory is renamed to am335x_boneblack so the fedora-arm-installer 
script no longer works.

I will manually finish the steps and continue my testing.

>
>>
>> = Installation Complete! Insert into the beaglebone and boot.
>> $
>> And then I just try to boot Beagle Bone Black from the image and find it do
>> not work. The serial output is as following:
>> U-Boot SPL 2014.04-00014-g47880f5 (Apr 22 2014 - 13:23:54)
>> reading args
>> spl_load_image_fat_os: error reading image args, err - -1
>> reading u-boot.img
>> reading u-boot.img
>>
>>
>> U-Boot 2014.04-00014-g47880f5 (Apr 22 2014 - 13:23:54)
>>
>> I2C: ready
>> DRAM:  512 MiB
>> NAND:  0 MiB
>> MMC: OMAP SD/MMC: 0, OMAP SD/MMC: 1
>> *** Warning - readenv() failed, using default environment
>>
>> Net: <ethaddr> not set. Validating first E-fuse MAC
>> cpsw, usb_ether
>> Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0
>> gpio: pin 53 (gpio 53) value is 1
>> mmc0 is current device
>> gpio: pin 54 (gpio 54) value is 1
>> SD/MMC found on device 0
>> ** File not found uEnv.txt **
>> Checking if uenvcmd is set ...
>>
>> uenvcmd was not defined in uEnv.txt ...
>> gpio: pin 56 (gpio 56) value is 0
>> gpio: pin 55 (gpio 55) value is 0
>> gpio: pin 54 (gpio 54) value is 0
>> mmc1(part 0) is current device
>>
>> then it boot to my system on emmc. So am I wrong in some steps? Or the image
>> just can not boot up on Beagle Bone Black by design?
>
> That old factory bootloader in the eMMC doesn't know about how to deal
> with newer extlinux image's.
>
> Regards,
>

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