Upgrading u-boot needed ?

Olivier Berger oberger at ouvaton.org
Tue Aug 5 08:35:56 CEST 2008


Mikael Berthe <mikael.berthe at lilotux.net> writes:

> * Torfinn Ingolfsen <tingox at gmail.com> [2008-08-04 23:55 +0200]:
>> 
>> FWIW, I learned (from the community list I believe) som time ago that
>> you can use 'grep  Bootloader /dev/mtdblock0' from a shell on the
>> FreeRunner (and possibly the 1973 as well) to get the u-boot version.
>> Like this:
>> 
>> root at om-gta02:~# grep  Bootloader /dev/mtdblock0
>> Neo1973 Bootloader U-Boot 1.3.2-moko12
>
> That's NOR u-boot version, and you can get NAND's with mtdblock1:
>
> root at om-gta02:~# grep Bootloader /dev/mtdblock1
> Neo1973 Bootloader U-Boot 1.3.2+gitr18+64eb10cab8055084ae25ea4e73b66dd03cc1a0cb
>
> ...which can be useful to check after an upgrade.
>
> HTH too :)
> Regards,

Well... but all that doesn't give any hint on which one the FR was
booted under :( (it actually tells you it's under one of these two,
which is already a start ;), as in my case, if you pressed aux and
power together when booting it, in the wrong order.

My 2 cents,

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