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Date:      Sun, 16 Mar 2014 18:33:14 -0700
From:      Rui Paulo <rpaulo@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Patrick Kelsey <kelsey@ieee.org>
Cc:        freebsd-arm <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Booting FreeBSD from eMMC on BeagleBone Black
Message-ID:  <E1283934-0065-4979-92AA-99D1056BFBD5@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAD44qMXrKbZqXT_Z1UL2LXuVON4Gb49m-GygW_6Y14Zz-egTFw@mail.gmail.com>

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On 16 Mar 2014, at 14:59, Patrick Kelsey <kelsey@ieee.org> wrote:

> - Improved disk probing support that will now by default find and use the
> first suitable partition among the available storage devices.

I think this introduced a bug where, if you have a non-responsive boot device, ubldr will stop and won't try network booting:

## Starting application at 0x01000054 ...
Consoles: U-Boot console  
Compatible API signature found @1d800a8
Number of U-Boot devices: 2

FreeBSD/armv6 U-Boot loader, Revision 1.2
(rpaulo@zedfs.local, Fri Mar 14 22:35:47 PDT 2014)
DRAM:	 256MB
Unknown device type ''   <------------ this is new
Found U-Boot device: disk
Probing all storage devices...
Checking unit=0 slice=0 partition=-1...disk0: read failed, error=1

Checking unit=1 slice=0 partition=-1...
Checking unit=2 slice=0 partition=-1...
Checking unit=3 slice=0 partition=-1...
Checking unit=4 slice=0 partition=-1...
Checking unit=5 slice=0 partition=-1...

can't load 'kernel'

Type '?' for a list of commands, 'help' for more detailed help.
loader> 

It stops here and doesn't try net0 booting.

--
Rui Paulo





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