lebeno Posted June 3, 2016 Share Posted June 3, 2016 I keep my Lime2 updated with apt-get update/apt-get upgrade, but it does not upgrade the u-boot, that is still an old version: U-Boot SPL 2015.07-armbian-sun7i (Oct 11 2015 - 17:17:10) DRAM: 1024 MiB CPU: 912000000Hz, AXI/AHB/APB: 3/2/2 Because the network speed is not that fast, I suspect this could be solved with a more recent u-boot. How do I update the Lime2 bootloader to a recent u-boot without re-downloading an image and re-installing all my software and data? It looks like there is already a recent u-boot.bin file on the system... # ls -l /usr/lib/nand-sata-install/a20/bootloader/linux/ -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 152 May 23 22:35 linux.ini -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 309228 May 23 22:35 u-boot.bin ...but what steps are needed to make the Lime 2 use the new bootloader? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phelum Posted June 4, 2016 Share Posted June 4, 2016 I keep my Lime2 updated with apt-get update/apt-get upgrade, but it does not upgrade the u-boot, that is still an old version: U-Boot SPL 2015.07-armbian-sun7i (Oct 11 2015 - 17:17:10) DRAM: 1024 MiB CPU: 912000000Hz, AXI/AHB/APB: 3/2/2 Because the network speed is not that fast, I suspect this could be solved with a more recent u-boot. How do I update the Lime2 bootloader to a recent u-boot without re-downloading an image and re-installing all my software and data? It looks like there is already a recent u-boot.bin file on the system... # ls -l /usr/lib/nand-sata-install/a20/bootloader/linux/ -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 152 May 23 22:35 linux.ini -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 309228 May 23 22:35 u-boot.bin...but what steps are needed to make the Lime 2 use the new bootloader?Hi,I doubt that a U-Boot upgrade will improve your network speed but I could be wrong. If you're booting from NAND then I'd mount /dev/nand1 at /media and then check the /media/linux directory. It should contain linux.ini and u-boot.bin and if so then you could copy the new version to this directory. If you're booting from SD card then I don't think the /usr/lib/... files are relevant. Cheers, Steven Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Posted June 4, 2016 Share Posted June 4, 2016 If you're booting from SD card then I don't think the /usr/lib/... files are relevant. Exactly. those are relevant only for NAND install where we used this old / legacy boot loader. Mainline uboot does not have NAND support. @lebeno We changed naming once from none -> default, next, dev and we forgot to made a link I guess ... have to check later if we have a problem. Install it this way: apt-get install linux-u-boot-lime2-default # legacy kernel or apt-get install linux-u-boot-lime2-next # mainline kernel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lebeno Posted June 4, 2016 Author Share Posted June 4, 2016 Thank you, works perfectly! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisArena52 Posted June 4, 2016 Share Posted June 4, 2016 Is there something like the boot.ini file in play for the u-boot loader for the SD Card version? Thanks Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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