beaglebone black: MMC partition switch failed

[Ian Lepore]

On Tue, 2017-04-18 at 13:54 -0300, Otacílio wrote:
> Em 18/04/2017 12:51, Glen Barber escreveu:
> > 
> > On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 08:42:58AM -0700, jungle Boogie wrote:
> > > 
> > > On 15 April 2017 at 18:50, jungle boogie <jungleboogie0 at gmail.com
> > > > wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > Hi All,
> > > > 
> > > > It's been awhile since I've been able to run FreeBSD on my BBB.
> > > > It was
> > > > failing somewhere, but I didn't have good serial cable to see
> > > > what was
> > > > happening.
> > > > 
> > > > Using the latest freebsd head image:
> > > > FreeBSD-12.0-CURRENT-arm-armv6-BEAGLEBONE-20170413-r316750.img
> > > > 
> > > > I'm writing it to my microSD card:
> > > > sudo dd if=FreeBSD-12.0-CURRENT-arm-armv6-BEAGLEBONE-20170413-
> > > > r316750.img
> > > > of=/dev/sdf bs=8M
> > > > 128+0 records in
> > > > 128+0 records out
> > > > 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB, 1.0 GiB) copied, 1.01005 s, 1.1 GB/s
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Putting it in the BB and holding s2 for three seconds as
> > > > mentioned in the
> > > > FBSD Journal article[0].
> > > > 
> > > > Upon doing so, I see this:
> > > > U-Boot SPL 2017.01-rc3 (Apr 13 2017 - 12:30:59)
> > > > Trying to boot from MMC1** First descriptor is NOT a primary
> > > > desc on 0:1 **
> > > > MMC partition switch failed
> > > > *** Warning - MMC partition switch failed, using default
> > > > environment
> > > > 
> > > > ** Partition 1 not valid on device 0 **
> > > > spl_register_fat_device: fat register err - -1
> > > > spl_load_image_fat: error reading image u-boot.img, err - -1
> > > > MMC partition switch failed
> > > > *** Warning - MMC partition switch failed, using default
> > > > environment
> > > > 
> > > > spl: no partition table found
> > > > SPL: failed to boot from all boot devices
> > > > ### ERROR ### Please RESET the board ###
> > > > 
> > > Anyone have recommendations on how to fix this?
> > There appears to be an issue with the 20170413 image.  Please check
> > if
> > the FreeBSD-12.0-CURRENT-arm-armv6-BEAGLEBONE-20170405-
> > r316508.img.xz
> > image works.
> > 
> > Glen
> > 
> I tested them a few days ago and none of them worked. I also
> compiled 
> locally and it does not work, even an image generated for the RPI3 
> prints the same error message.

The 20170405 image Glen mentioned works fine, I just DLed and tested
it.

-- Ian