u-boot Example Settings To Easily Switch Between TFTP/NFS and NAND

[mteel]

Here are my u-boot variables of interest for switching between TFTP/NFS booting and NAND booting:

Code:

    serverip=10.0.0.159
    gatewayip=10.0.0.1
    netmask=255.255.255.0
    bootargs_end=:::DB88FXX81:eth0:none
    ipaddr=10.0.0.42
    console=console=ttyS0,115200 mtdparts=nand_mtd:0x00100000@0x00000000(uboot),0x00500000@0x00100000(uImage),0x1fa00000@0x00600000(rootfs)
    boottftp=tftpboot 0x2000000 uImage.sheeva.20090319
    bootnand=nand read.e 0x2000000 0x00100000 0x00500000
    bootargs_nand=root=/dev/mtdblock2 rw
    bootargs_nfs=root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=10.0.0.159:/tftpboot/root-ubuntu
    bootcmd=run bootnand;setenv bootargs $(console) $(bootargs_nand) ip=$(ipaddr):$(serverip)$(bootargs_end);bootm 0x2000000
    bootcmd_nand=run bootnand;setenv bootargs $(console) $(bootargs_nand) ip=$(ipaddr):$(serverip)$(bootargs_end);bootm 0x2000000
    bootcmd_nfs=run boottftp;setenv bootargs $(console) $(bootargs_nfs) ip=$(ipaddr):$(serverip)$(bootargs_end);bootm 0x2000000

The bootcmd_nand and bootcmd_nfs are just storage. Copy the desired boot type to the bootcmd variable and use "saveenv" to save it.
In the example, it is booting from nand flash.

[moshiach]

Pretty much the same thing I wrote here

Glad I'm not the only one switching back and forth

[finkployd]

@mteel : thanks for your post, I've taken your settings, modified and expanded slightly to add booting from SD.  Perhaps someone will find it of use:

Code:

set console 'console=ttyS0,115200 mtdparts=nand_mtd:0x00100000@0x00000000(uBoot)ro,0x00400000@0x00100000(uImage),0x1fb00000@0x00500000(rootfs)'

set boottftp 'tftpboot 0x2000000 $(image_name)'
set bootargs_nfs 'root=/dev/nfs rw'
set boot_nfs 'run boottftp;setenv bootargs $(console) $(bootargs_nfs) nfsroot=$(serverip):$(rootpath) ip=$(ipaddr):$(serverip)$(bootargs_end);bootm 0x2000000'

set bootnand 'nand read.e 0x2000000 0x00100000 0x00500000'
set bootargs_nand 'root=/dev/mtdblock2 rw'
set boot_nand 'run bootnand;setenv bootargs $(console) $(bootargs_nand) ip=$(ipaddr):$(serverip)$(bootargs_end);bootm 0x2000000'

set bootargs_sd 'root=/dev/mmcblk0p1 rw'
set boot_sd 'run bootnand;setenv bootargs $(console) $(bootargs_sd) ip=$(ipaddr):$(serverip)$(bootargs_end);bootm 0x2000000'

set bootcmd 'run boot_sd;'

mtdparts are configured for a 4mb uImage size (and loading rootfs @ 5mb), using this one may need to adjust the numbers to match their environment.

[exdec]

I've been trying to  boot the kernel from flash but use nfs for the filesystem without success. I can use flash for both, or use tftp/nfs, but if I boot the kernel from flash it cant seem to read the root filesystem from nfs. Any ideas?

thanks

[rshitrit]

u probably missed something on the u-boot env.
pls send a dump of the u-boot env and the boot log..

[Skywalker]

Ok guys,
again: I am a newbie, who wants to learn. I have setup a tftp server,and I have setup an NFS server (do I really need both ?).
I suspect I need to put this uImage.sheeva.040309 somewhere, and I have to expand ubuntu-9.04.tar.gz to another directory. Which directory should this be ? I suspect I should find these directories back in your u-boot variables somewhere. This is a link I am missing in the settings of finkployd.
If I understood it well: the uImage will be loaded in DRAM and run form there (I suspect this one will need to be on the TFTP server), and the file system (expanded from ubuntu-9.04.tar.gz) will be accessed from the NFS server.

Please someone clarify, and post your server directories and your full Uboot variables settings. It would help me a lot.

Kind regards,

Luke