I killed it already(Help Please)

[spdfreak2000]

Hi all

I got my new sheeva yesterday and already it wont boot. I was trying to install a new kernel and the uImage was too big apparently. I am now left with this

        |  \/  | __ _ _ ____   _____| | |
        | |\/| |/ _` | '__\ \ / / _ \ | |
        | |  | | (_| | |   \ V /  __/ | |
        |_|  |_|\__,_|_|    \_/ \___|_|_|
 _   _     ____              _
| | | |   | __ )  ___   ___ | |_
| | | |___|  _ \ / _ \ / _ \| __|
| |_| |___| |_) | (_) | (_) | |_
 \___/    |____/ \___/ \___/ \__|
 ** MARVELL BOARD: SHEEVA PLUG LE

U-Boot 1.1.4 (Mar 19 2009 - 16:06:59) Marvell version: 3.4.16

U-Boot code: 00600000 -> 0067FFF0  BSS: -> 006CEE80

Soc: 88F6281 A0 (DDR2)
CPU running @ 1200Mhz L2 running @ 400Mhz
SysClock = 400Mhz , TClock = 200Mhz

DRAM CAS Latency = 5 tRP = 5 tRAS = 18 tRCD=6
DRAM CS[0] base 0x00000000   size 256MB
DRAM CS[1] base 0x10000000   size 256MB
DRAM Total size 512MB  16bit width
Flash:  0 kB
Addresses 8M - 0M are saved for the U-Boot usage.
Mem malloc Initialization (8M - 7M): Done
NAND:512 MB

CPU : Marvell Feroceon (Rev 1)

Streaming disabled
Write allocate disabled


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

Marvell>>

Any help in getting this sorted would be most appreciated I just want it back to normal.

[mgillespie]

I had the same problem.   I scratched my head for an entire day.  It basically means (I believe) that the fatload bit of the sheevainstaller is writing unbootable code (for whatever reason).

I eventually found my problem to be somethng wrong with the flash drive I was using, the uboot did not like it for some reason, I used a different flash drive,  deleted all the partitions from it under a x86 linux PC using fdisk, created a new single primary vfat partition, formatted it using mkfs.vfat, copied the sheeva installer files, and re-ran the sheevainstaller tool, and it worked...

Good luck!!!   Don't worry, i'm sure what you have is unbrickable, mine was...

[spdfreak2000]

After trying most of the afternoon yesterday to get the installer to work on my Windows boxes I finaly got it sorted in an hour today with my Ubuntu netbook just needed to install ftdi and php5-cli then run php ./runme.php. Now to see if I can break it again lol.