Hi,
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Dave Martin dave.martin@linaro.org wrote:
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Loïc Minier loic.minier@linaro.org wrote:
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010, Dave Martin wrote:
As far as I can make out, the partition must be an exact number of "cylinders", must have enough sectors for a FAT32 filesystem and must start at sector 63. This gives a minumum size is 5 cylinders (80262 sectors), which seems to work OK. Anything else causes the ROM to print out the characters "60" and halt, at least on my board.
Is this the ROM or x-loader?
No X-Loader banner (or anything else) is printed before the "60", so I'm assuming it's the ROM.
What's your board again? if beagle, are you pressing the user button?
Note, I've been playing with *xM* A2, not Beagle A2.
Is MLO the same thing as X-loader?
Interestingly, holding down the user button when there is no boot sector at sector 63, causes just "60" to be printed out instead of the X-loader banner and "empty boot sector" mesages.
Cheers ---Dave
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 8:53 AM, Dave Martin dave.martin@linaro.org wrote:
Hi,
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Dave Martin dave.martin@linaro.org wrote:
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Loïc Minier loic.minier@linaro.org wrote:
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010, Dave Martin wrote:
As far as I can make out, the partition must be an exact number of "cylinders", must have enough sectors for a FAT32 filesystem and must start at sector 63. This gives a minumum size is 5 cylinders (80262 sectors), which seems to work OK. Anything else causes the ROM to print out the characters "60" and halt, at least on my board.
Is this the ROM or x-loader?
No X-Loader banner (or anything else) is printed before the "60", so I'm assuming it's the ROM.
What's your board again? if beagle, are you pressing the user button?
Note, I've been playing with *xM* A2, not Beagle A2.
Is MLO the same thing as X-loader?
Interestingly, holding down the user button when there is no boot sector at sector 63, causes just "60" to be printed out instead of the X-loader banner and "empty boot sector" mesages.
On the "xM A2" holding down the user button just forces u-boot to use 'user.scr' vs 'boot.scr' it doesn't change anything related to the bootrom/x-load sequence as mmc is default on those boards.
Regards,
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 2:58 PM, Robert Nelson robertcnelson@gmail.com wrote:
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On the "xM A2" holding down the user button just forces u-boot to use 'user.scr' vs 'boot.scr' it doesn't change anything related to the bootrom/x-load sequence as mmc is default on those boards.
Interesting... I guess that's consistent with what I was seeing. The configuration I just described isn't identical to what I tried before, so maybe the different message was caused by something else.
Cheers ---Dave
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010, Dave Martin wrote:
Note, I've been playing with *xM* A2, not Beagle A2.
ohhh, ok
Is MLO the same thing as X-loader?
Yes; MLO is the filename which the ROM uses to load the bootloader from MMC, and is usually x-loader
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