Android image and some instructions
Andreas Wallin
thesaint at thesaint.mine.nu
Sat Dec 6 22:44:38 CET 2008
Dave Arnold wrote:
>
> Dave Arnold wrote:
>>
>>
>> Andy Green wrote:
> Somebody in the thread at some point said:
> | Latest uImage-android seems to be broken - uboot gives Bad data CRC
> | message with it.
> | Can anybody post some older uImage-android ?
>
> No this is caused by U-Boot's default environment only pulling in 2MB
> from the NAND partition for kernel. Increase it like this ->
>
> setenv bootcmd setenv bootargs \${bootargs_base} \${mtdparts}\; nand
> read.e 0x32000000 kernel 0x300000\; bootm 0x32000000
> saveenv
>
> -Andy
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>> I changed the u-boot environment as Andy recommended, but now my
>> Freerunner won't boot. I get a fast flashing red LED. I don't know what
>> to do now. I'm thinking about installing Qi instead, but I don't know
>> which binary of Qi to download. Any suggestions would be greatly
>> appreciated.
>>
>> Dave
>>
>>
> More info--when I set the uboot env like this:
>> setenv bootcmd setenv bootargs \${bootargs_base} \${mtdparts}\; nand
>> read.e 0x32000000 kernel 0x300000 \; bootm 0x32000000
>> saveenv
>>
> I get the fast flashing red LED.
> When I set it like this:
>> setenv bootcmd setenv bootargs \${bootargs_base} \${mtdparts}\; nand
>> read.e 0x32000000 kernel \; bootm 0x32000000
>> saveenv
>>
> I can boot Andoid again. The only difference is the 0x300000 after kernel
> in the failed environment. I'm trying to increase the size of the kernel
> area so I can flash Sean's latest kernel image.
> Dave
It seems like my saveenv does'nt save... when i poweroff the openmoko
after running the commands, it cant boot the kernel, and i can see that
it only can read ha 2mb kernel again..
any hints ?
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