alpha-6 installer

[sevi4310]

I was trying to update my plug using alpha-6 installer.
everything works alright until it boots from a USB stick or SD card.

any advice?

Code:

USB 0: host mode
PEX 0: interface detected no Link.
Net:   egiga0 [PRIME], egiga1
Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0

NAND read: device 0 offset 0x100000, size 0x400000

Reading data from 0x4ff800 -- 100% complete.
 4194304 bytes read: OK
## Booting image at 00800000 ...
Bad Magic Number

[restamp]

Sevi, it's hard to understand exactly what point you are talking about in your post.  Does this failure occur during the install sequence, immediately after you receive the "****   U-boot should be up and running now. Open your console ..." message from the installer?  The first thing you should see at this point is the Uboot splash screen, followed by

Code:

USB 0: host mode
PEX 0: interface detected no Link.
Net:   egiga0 [PRIME], egiga1
Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0
Saving Environment to NAND...
Erasing Nand...Writing to Nand... done

followed by a reset and an attempt to boot from a USB storage device.  However, it looks like it is attempting to do a normal boot from NAND for you.

Or, is this what you get after you have completed the install and try to boot at that point?

You need to provide more details.  For starters, does your Uboot have a March date on it, or a May 13th date?

[rooster]

The installer installs the uboot and rootfs to the internal NAND flash, you can place your rootfs on USB/SD and still use the uImage from NAND.
Have you changed the default RAM load address ?
Post your uboot environments so we can help you.

[sevi4310]

Here are my steps:

Step #1:
Downloaded alpha-6 installer and setup it.

Step #2:
Formate USB stick in FAT32 on my Windiws XP machine and wrote all files from from directory "installer"  (alpha-6 installer) to the USB stick.

Step #3:
moved USB stick from Windows computer to ShevaPlug.

Step #4:
I run ./runme.sh from my Ubuntu computer.
Eveything looked alright.

Code:

root@stockalerts:/tmp/installer/sheevaplug-installer-alpha-6# ./runme.sh
 ****   Preparing environment variables file ...
 ****   Burning uboot and environment variables ... This will take few minutes ...
Open On-Chip Debugger 0.2.0-in-development (2009-05-17-10:32) svn:1800M


BUGS? Read http://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/openocd/trunk/BUGS


$URL: http://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/openocd/trunk/src/openocd.c $
3000 kHz
dcc downloads are enabled
Info : JTAG tap: feroceon.cpu tap/device found: 0x20a023d3 (Manufacturer: 0x1e9, Part: 0x0a02, Version: 0x2)
Info : JTAG Tap/device matched
Error: unknown EmbeddedICE version (comms ctrl: 0x00000018)
Warn : no telnet port specified, using default port 4444
Warn : no gdb port specified, using default port 3333
Warn : no tcl port specified, using default port 6666
target state: halted
target halted in ARM state due to debug-request, current mode: Supervisor
cpsr: 0x000000d3 pc: 0xffff0000
MMU: disabled, D-Cache: disabled, I-Cache: disabled
0 0 1 0: 00052078
NAND flash device 'NAND 512MiB 3,3V 8-bit' found
successfully erased blocks 5 to 6 on NAND flash device 'NAND 512MiB 3,3V 8-bit'
wrote file uboot-env.bin to NAND flash 0 up to offset 0x000c0000 in 17.885023s
target state: halted
target halted in ARM state due to debug-request, current mode: Supervisor
cpsr: 0x000000d3 pc: 0xffff0000
MMU: disabled, D-Cache: disabled, I-Cache: disabled
0 0 1 0: 00052078
NAND flash device 'NAND 512MiB 3,3V 8-bit' found
successfully erased blocks 0 to 4 on NAND flash device 'NAND 512MiB 3,3V 8-bit'
wrote file uboot.bin to NAND flash 0 up to offset 0x00073000 in 64.155563s
 ****   U-boot should be up and running now. Open your console ...
root@stockalerts:/tmp/installer/sheevaplug-installer-alpha-6#

Step 5#
Waited 10 min.

Step 6#
Opened terminal and it worked

What I did?
I just used another memory stick.


Thank you everyone.

[restamp]

Glad you got it working.  Hope you enjoy the new load.

[Rabeeh Khoury]

I think that the reason might be because you had bare FAT32 on the usb stick without partitions.
This is what most of the USB sticks are shipped with.

I'm attaching a patch for U-Boot this fixes this.
It will be included in the next version of the installer.

[badcam]

This is great, as I have the same issue, but could you please advise, how do I use the patch?  Thanks.

[Rabeeh Khoury]

This is a patch for u-boot. You need to get the sources and patch them with this patch.

[badcam]

  Oops.  I should have known better.

At least all is not lost. I did manage to get another USB stick to "take". Thanks for your response.