Bootin from SD

Nick Guenther kousue at gmail.com
Sat Mar 1 01:25:07 CET 2008


Rewriting the u-boot is not /that/ dangerous. I don't have a debug
board either and I've done it about 10 times now. Just make sure all
your batteries have full power, and your USB cords are plugged in
snugly, and don't trip onto your neo while doing it.

On 2/29/08, Emre Turkay <emreturkay at gmail.com> wrote:
> (Sorry for the previous digest reply..)
>
> On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 12:03 PM, Emre Turkay <emreturkay at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > By the way, I don't have a debug board and I would prefer to not rewrite
> the uboot. The uboot on the device is the one intalled by FIC before I got
> it. It's from May.19.2007.
> >
> > >
> > > From: Mike Montour <mail at mmontour.net>
> > > To: community at lists.openmoko.org
> > > Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 19:24:34 -0800
> > > Subject: Re: Booting from SD
> > > Ortwin Regel wrote:
> > > > The problem might be your u-boot version. Try this one:
> > > >
> http://buildhost.automated.it/u-boot-good-for-sd-boot-r13_0_2632_0.bin
> > > > It's what I've been using successfully. I never could get it to work
> > > > with other u-boot versions I tried.
> > >
> > > SD-booting in u-boot was broken for several months but as of late
> > > January it is fixed (or at least worked-around; the root cause of the
> > > bug has not yet been identified). The link you posted will boot from SD,
> > > but it has other bugs that have been fixed in later versions.
> > >
> > > Regarding the original problem, it is likely related to the 2.6.24
> > > kernel. The GTA01 SD-card driver was broken for a while. My
> > > understanding is that it is now functional, but that it is still
> > > configured to emit a large amount of debugging information. Things
> > > should work fine with a 2.6.22.5 kernel as long as you have the
> > > corresponding modules installed on your root filesystem.
> > >
> > >
> >
>
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