unable to boot 11.2-BETA1 on BeagleBone

[Glen Barber]

On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 09:26:01PM -0500, Mike Karels wrote:
> > Hi Christopher,
> 
> > On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 10:02:30AM +0800, Christopher Hall wrote:
> > > Hello Glen,
> > >
> > > On Tue, 15 May 2018 13:46:49 +0000, Glen Barber <gjb at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Sat, May 12, 2018 at 04:33:26PM -0500, Mike Karels wrote:
> > > > > I tried to boot 11.2-BETA1 on a BeagleBone Black that had been
> > > > > running 11.1-RELEASE.  It didn't boot, falling back to the EMMC
> > > > > (which isn't bootable, a different problem).  I was also unable to
> > > > > boot the snapshot from 12/20. I see that the boot partition has
> > > > > different contents:
> > > > >
> > > > > 11.1-RELEASE:
> > > > > MLO             u-boot.img      ubldr           ubldr.bin
> > > > >
> > > > > 11.2-BETA1:
> > > > > MLO             boot.scr        u-boot.img      ubldr.bin
> > > > >
> > > > > Has anyone else been able to boot on a BeagleBone?
> > > > >  
> > > >
> > > > I saw this too with 11.2-BETA1, but due to inconsistencies between two
> > > > different BeagleBone SoCs used to test, could not rule out if the
> > > > problem was due to local hardware failure.
> > > >
> > > > Specifically, one of two I have has the EMMC overwritten to avoid
> > > > needing to "manually" boot FreeBSD, and the UART does not work
> > > > correctly (because I am dangerous with solder), and nothing outputted
> > > > on the HDMI console.  The other system has working EMMC, seemingly
> > > > broken HDMI output, but working UART that only displayed repeated 'C'
> > > > when booting.
> > >
> > > Just tried
> > > FreeBSD-11.2-PRERELEASE-arm-armv6-BEAGLEBONE-20180504-r333226.img.xz
> > >
> > > on my working BBB but only got repeated 'C' on serial port.
> > >
> 
> > To be clear, you observed the repeated 'C' on the serial port, and the
> > system did not boot?  I want to make sure, since you mentioned you did
> > see at least some repetition of 'C' on the console but eventually the
> > system did come up fine.
> 
> > In either case, thank you very much for testing.
> 
> Following up on previous email and filling in details:
> 
> I also get repeated 'C' on the serial console when the sytem tries to
> boot from EMMC.  With 11.2-BETA1 or the older snapshot, this happened
> even if I held down the boot switch.  I think it is from a repeated
> error that I have also seen along the lines of "Cannot set timing on EMMC"
> but I can't prove that.  But it boots fine from SD card with 11.1,
> and (fwiw) the EMMC works fine from FreeBSD.
> 
> I'll file the PR if no one has beaten me to it.
> 

Please do, and thank you for the report.  By the way, I had intended to
follow-up to the 11.2-BETA1 announcement with a "hey, can someone test
the BBB image, I think I have faulty hardware", but my outbox suggests
it was never sent.

My apologies to everyone that has run into this issue with 11.2-BETA1.

Glen

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