Beagleboard: Erase NAND Flash And Now Won't Boot
I have a Beagle OMAP3530-GP board and I copied my kernel and rootfs to two SD card partitions and wanted to boot them.
partition 1 from SDcard: FAT32 boot partition with the following files in the same order: MLO U-boot.bin uImage uInitrd
And in section 2: root filesystem
Now I first downloaded it when I got it:
Texas Instruments X-Loader 1.4.2 (Feb 19 2009 - 12:01:24)
Reading boot sector
Error: reading boot sector
Loading u-boot.bin from nand
U-Boot 2011.03 (Apr 20 2011 - 07:19:53)
OMAP3530-GP ES3.0, CPU-OPP2, L3-165MHz, Max CPU Clock 600 mHz
OMAP3 Beagle board + LPDDR/NAND
I2C: ready
DRAM: 256 MiB
NAND: 256 MiB
MMC: OMAP SD/MMC: 0
In: serial
Out: serial
Err: serial
Beagle Rev C1/C2/C3
timed out in wait_for_pin: I2C_STAT=0
No EEPROM on expansion board
Die ID #5738000300000000040323091100e002
Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0
MMC: block number 0x1 exceeds max(0x0)
** Can't read from device 0 **
** Unable to use mmc 0:1 for fatload **
MMC: block number 0x1 exceeds max(0x0)
** Can't read from device 0 **
** Unable to use mmc 0:1 for fatload **
Wrong Image Format for bootm command
ERROR: can't get kernel image!
I thought that in NAND it had an earlier u-boot.bin that it was reading and wanted to erase it, so at a weird moment:
OMAP3 beagleboard.org # nandecc sw
SW ECC selected
OMAP3 beagleboard.org # nand erase 0 80000
NAND erase: device 0 offset 0x0, size 0x80000
Erasing at 0x60000 -- 100% complete.
OK
OMAP3 beagleboard.org # nand erase 80000 160000
NAND erase: device 0 offset 0x80000, size 0x160000
Erasing at 0x1c0000 -- 100% complete.
OK
And booted again to notice only a few unreadable serial characters and the bootloader no longer fits.
Then it hit me that I might have removed X-loader 1.4.2 in NAND! I copied it to my boot partition so that the X-loader can be run with SDcard instead of NAND. However, I see the same unreadable characters on power-up :( :(
What should I do? How do I get the bootloader to work?
Thank you in advance
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You can prepare an SD card with x-loader ( MLO ) and u-boot.bin and boot from it like this:
- Beagleboard switch
- Copy MLO and u-boot.bin to sd card (FAT32 partition).
- Insert SD card
- Press and hold the user key on the board.
- Power on board (do not release the user button yet)
This forces the beagle to boot from the sdcard. If both MLO and u-boot.bin are copied correctly to the SD card, then you should now see the u-boot prompt on the serial console. You can now load binaries from SD card and flash to nand at the u-boot prompt.
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