After OM2008.12 flashing no booting of kernel

Andreas Willich andreas_willich at gmx.at
Fri Dec 26 20:59:55 CET 2008


Hi Joel


Thanks for your help. I have used the wrong file.


Regards
	Andreas



On Fri, 2008-12-26 at 14:08 -0500, Joel Newkirk wrote:
> Since it happens both booting from NAND and from NOR it can't be uboot
> itself.  Try reflashing just the kernel.  Try redownloading and reflashing
> the kernel.  Make sure you select the uImage.bin kernel file, not the
> u-boot.bin bootloader file.  (I've done that before, as have others who've
> posted to the list - if you've done that it will pop up the splash screen
> then fail to load the kernel, and return to boot menu)
> 
> Oh, and that datecode should indeed be V6 - should have an SMD capacitor
> connecting two pins of the uSD socket and "cat /proc/cpuinfo" should have
> "Revision : 0360".
> 
> j
> 
> 
> On Fri, 26 Dec 2008 19:43:03 +0100, Andreas Willich
> <andreas_willich at gmx.at> wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > 
> > I flashed my Neo GTA02 (v6 I think; DateCode: 20080821) with the kernel,
> > rootfs and uboot from the 2008.12 download folder.
> > 
> > After the reboot it hangs at the splash image and when I boot from NAND
> > or NOR I see shortly the message "wrong image format for bootm command"
> > and the I am back in the boot menu.
> > 
> > 
> > I search for this message and get this post
> > http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2008-October/032774.html
> > 
> > I tried the devirginator way but it does not work.
> > 
> > 
> > Has someone an idea how to get my neo booting?
> > 
> > 
> > Regards
> > 	Andreas
> > 
> > 
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