Date: Wed, 16 May 2018 10:02:30 +0800 From: Christopher Hall <christopherhall.hsw@gmail.com> To: Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Mike Karels <mike@karels.net>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: unable to boot 11.2-BETA1 on BeagleBone Message-ID: <20180516100211.67445a19@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20180515134649.GI55278@FreeBSD.org> References: <201805122133.w4CLXQba064904@mail.karels.net> <20180515134649.GI55278@FreeBSD.org>
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Hello Glen, On Tue, 15 May 2018 13:46:49 +0000, Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > On Sat, May 12, 2018 at 04:33:26PM -0500, Mike Karels wrote: > > I tried to boot 11.2-BETA1 on a BeagleBone Black that had been > > running 11.1-RELEASE. It didn't boot, falling back to the EMMC > > (which isn't bootable, a different problem). I was also unable to > > boot the snapshot from 12/20. I see that the boot partition has > > different contents: > > > > 11.1-RELEASE: > > MLO u-boot.img ubldr ubldr.bin > > > > 11.2-BETA1: > > MLO boot.scr u-boot.img ubldr.bin > > > > Has anyone else been able to boot on a BeagleBone? > > > > I saw this too with 11.2-BETA1, but due to inconsistencies between two > different BeagleBone SoCs used to test, could not rule out if the > problem was due to local hardware failure. > > Specifically, one of two I have has the EMMC overwritten to avoid > needing to "manually" boot FreeBSD, and the UART does not work > correctly (because I am dangerous with solder), and nothing outputted > on the HDMI console. The other system has working EMMC, seemingly > broken HDMI output, but working UART that only displayed repeated 'C' > when booting. Just tried FreeBSD-11.2-PRERELEASE-arm-armv6-BEAGLEBONE-20180504-r333226.img.xz on my working BBB but only got repeated 'C' on serial port. the boot partition on uSD shows: # ll /.autofs/da2s1 total 700 -rwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 77092 2018-05-04 09:58 MLO* -rwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 199 2018-05-04 11:43 boot.scr* -rwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 393872 2018-05-04 09:58 u-boot.img* -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 236388 2018-05-04 11:42 ubldr.bin* > > So, I wasn't entirely sure if it was "just me" or not. > > Could you please open a PR about this, assigned to freebsd-arm@ and > with re@ in CC? > > Glen > -- Best Regards. Christopher Hall.
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