Booting Beagleboard Black

[Tom Everett]

ok, so I got the serial cable from Adafruit, and I now get this with a
crochet-built kernel.  Is this perhaps a bug in crochet?


U-Boot SPL 2013.04 (Jul 11 2013 - 21:49:14)
OMAP SD/MMC: 0
reading bb-uboot.img
reading bb-uboot.img


U-Boot 2013.04 (Jul 11 2013 - 21:49:14)

I2C:   ready
DRAM:  512 MiB
WARNING: Caches not enabled
MMC:   OMAP SD/MMC: 0, OMAP SD/MMC: 1
Using default environment

musb-hdrc: ConfigData=0xde (UTMI-8, dyn FIFOs, HB-ISO Rx, HB-ISO Tx,
SoftConn)
musb-hdrc: MHDRC RTL version 2.0
musb-hdrc: setup fifo_mode 4
musb-hdrc: 28/31 max ep, 16384/16384 memory
USB Peripheral mode controller at 47401000 using PIO, IRQ 0
musb-hdrc: ConfigData=0xde (UTMI-8, dyn FIFOs, HB-ISO Rx, HB-ISO Tx,
SoftConn)
musb-hdrc: MHDRC RTL version 2.0
musb-hdrc: setup fifo_mode 4
musb-hdrc: 28/31 max ep, 16384/16384 memory
USB Host mode controller at 47401800 using PIO, IRQ 0
Net:   <ethaddr> not set. Validating first E-fuse MAC
cpsw, usb_ether
Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0
mmc0 is current device
SD/MMC found on device 0
reading bb-uEnv.txt
reading bbubldr
238058 bytes read in 49 ms (4.6 MiB/s)
reading bboneblk.dtb
13946 bytes read in 7 ms (1.9 MiB/s)
Booting from mmc ...
## Starting application at 0x88000054 ...
Consoles: U-Boot console
Compatible API signature found @9f240240
Number of U-Boot devices: 2

FreeBSD/armv6 U-Boot loader, Revision 1.2
(root at bernice, Sat Jul 20 20:59:18 MDT 2013)
DRAM:    512MB

Device: disk
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can't load 'kernel'

Type '?' for a list of commands, 'help' for more detailed help.
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On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 8:05 PM, Paul Mather <paul at gromit.dlib.vt.edu> wrote:

> On Jul 6, 2013, at 9:41 PM, Tom Everett <tom at khubla.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks everyone.  I tried the instructions here.
> https://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/arm/BeagleBoneBlack .
>
> Specifically
>
> 1 - unplug the usb and sd card
> 2 - plug in sd
> 3 - hold down "user/boot" button located by the sd connection, at the FAR
> end of the board from the other two buttons
> 4 - plug in USB
> 5 - observe power light go on
> 6 - release "user/boot" button
>
> The power light stays on, but nothing else happens.  Perhaps my .img file
> is not correct, is there somewhere I can download a "known to work" .img
> file?
>
>
> Do you have a USB to serial cable to monitor what is happening during the
> startup?  Something like http://www.adafruit.com/products/954 is very
> handy.  It can help let you know whether it is booting the right image, or
> how far it is getting in the boot sequence.
>
> I've managed to boot a Crochet-produced image on my BeagleBone Black, so I
> know it is possible.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Paul.
>



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