Date: Wed, 16 May 2018 02:29:42 +0000 From: Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org> To: Mike Karels <mike@karels.net> Cc: Christopher Hall <christopherhall.hsw@gmail.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: unable to boot 11.2-BETA1 on BeagleBone Message-ID: <20180516022942.GV55278@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <201805160226.w4G2Q180012735@mail.karels.net> References: <20180516020743.GU55278@FreeBSD.org> <201805160226.w4G2Q180012735@mail.karels.net>
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--2F7AbV2suvT8PGoH Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 09:26:01PM -0500, Mike Karels wrote: > > Hi Christopher, >=20 > > On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 10:02:30AM +0800, Christopher Hall wrote: > > > Hello Glen, > > > > > > On Tue, 15 May 2018 13:46:49 +0000, Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org> wro= te: > > > > > > > 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? > > > > > =20 > > > > > > > > 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 outputt= ed > > > > 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. > > > >=20 > > To be clear, you observed the repeated 'C' on the serial port, and the > > system did not boot? I want to make sure, since you mentioned you did > > see at least some repetition of 'C' on the console but eventually the > > system did come up fine. >=20 > > In either case, thank you very much for testing. >=20 > Following up on previous email and filling in details: >=20 > I also get repeated 'C' on the serial console when the sytem tries to > boot from EMMC. With 11.2-BETA1 or the older snapshot, this happened > even if I held down the boot switch. I think it is from a repeated > error that I have also seen along the lines of "Cannot set timing on EMMC" > but I can't prove that. But it boots fine from SD card with 11.1, > and (fwiw) the EMMC works fine from FreeBSD. >=20 > I'll file the PR if no one has beaten me to it. >=20 Please do, and thank you for the report. By the way, I had intended to follow-up to the 11.2-BETA1 announcement with a "hey, can someone test the BBB image, I think I have faulty hardware", but my outbox suggests it was never sent. My apologies to everyone that has run into this issue with 11.2-BETA1. Glen --2F7AbV2suvT8PGoH Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCAAdFiEEjRJAPC5sqwhs9k2jAxRYpUeP4pMFAlr7l5YACgkQAxRYpUeP 4pNMhQ//Q6ynYT8umyo6eON6xHMncfiSyqjflwJgplS2Y1RISiOSCt6YSY4Qyc3Q GEz5MDbGNl0u/R3q/eFWjEPJ4i+hrtNYkA74CcrwQRvklRPhql2J5DTlgwLQB3BC MLilpqdKcY+wmFyxnXO66i8pcFrBkwNVKJ97kP6lu7xLSoBpwgnZCyn8DnP5K0Jb x6evicGJkPQ3hLQd9BCzvhM/+mbuij/mi3IPy70z0PAIh+QtomUjVsFIwMuxfgDo jBFUuFwaGedaNeSgko8+/CQq0za+1P7obF41C0QDq2a2Jeg5rP89GeX99iTeVI/7 X3QJNsnQMfdbtlcRf8kdJXA/Hw9nT0WwCrA6SRAhXMUhtG3jQuI7oTm83DXVu6BA 1IWZCxQsvpxnvoAqOmB5s0OneF7LE0MCNHiY+xVE+oDvZYeWIqjowwpDd+cBpX8Z hOfd4ro9D+gli+/hoFtXxy0fYqGqugUc+wVZfGLFMvyPxdFh3eazZehu2r6Ei55O ducoj5b1YBFwfxg+C/jVYji63/FSdj7imRLLopu+VmWcnLLHknBAXgvKWf+Wy9wD 71nXwKIyNYJEsfFbUF+2Xu7Hy3trn4jd7EoWS4JH1dHz5CWQSsMak7gRoCyr8VkA JhZzf2L2JTwDAPywIRrJE3wsCbihpowO2L7wMdTBHXXncwBdgJI= =qjwf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --2F7AbV2suvT8PGoH--
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