EspressoBin v7 Cannot boot to SD

rnsi · April 23, 2023

Hello-

Just got my EspressoBin v7, trying to boot to SD using Armbian 23.02 Bullseye. Followed instructions at https://www.armbian.com/espressobin/.

Board is 2GB, so I used flash-image-DDR4-2g_2cs_6-1200_750.bin. U-Boot showed CPU runs at 1200, and I confirmed "C120" on the chip.

Interrupt boot process

bubt flash-image-DDR4-2g_2cs_6-1200_750.bin spi usb

env default -a

saveenv

Flashed Armbian_23.02.2_Espressobin_bullseye_current_5.15.93_minimal.img to a new SanDisk SD card with belenaEtcher and dd.

Board doesn't boot, I get "Wrong image format for "source" command" then it tries to boot other devices. I've tried a second new SD card and both minimal and not minimal filesystems with the same result.

Any suggestions or advice is greatly appreciated.

My U-Boot output:

TIM-1.0
mv_ddr-devel-g251bc63 DDR4 16b 2GB 2CS
WTMI-devel-18.12.1-1d97715
WTMI: system early-init
SVC REV: 5, CPU VDD voltage: 1.225V
Setting clocks: CPU 1200 MHz, DDR 750 MHz
CZ.NIC's Armada 3720 Secure Firmware 0b68a33-dirty (May 16 2022 17:51:06)
Running on ESPRESSObin
NOTICE:  Booting Trusted Firmware
NOTICE:  BL1: v2.6(release):a921da5e
NOTICE:  BL1: Built : 17:55:48, May 16 2022
NOTICE:  BL1: Booting BL2
NOTICE:  BL2: v2.6(release):a921da5e
NOTICE:  BL2: Built : 17:55:48, May 16 2022
NOTICE:  BL1: Booting BL31
NOTICE:  BL31: v2.6(release):a921da5e
NOTICE:  BL31: Built : 17:55:48, May 16 2022


U-Boot 2022.04-armbian (May 16 2022 - 17:50:52 +0000)

DRAM:  2 GiB
Core:  38 devices, 20 uclasses, devicetree: fit
WDT:   Not starting watchdog@8300
Comphy chip #0:
Comphy-0: USB3_HOST0    5 Gbps    
Comphy-1: PEX0          5 Gbps    
Comphy-2: SATA0         6 Gbps    
SATA link 0 timeout.
AHCI 0001.0300 32 slots 1 ports 6 Gbps 0x1 impl SATA mode
flags: ncq led only pmp fbss pio slum part sxs 
PCIe: Link down
MMC:   sdhci@d0000: 0, sdhci@d8000: 1
Loading Environment from SPIFlash... SF: Detected mx25u3235f with page size 256 Bytes, erase size 4 KiB, total 4 MiB
OK
Model: Globalscale Marvell ESPRESSOBin Board
Net:   eth0: ethernet@30000
Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0 
MMC Device 1 not found
no mmc device at slot 1
switch to partitions #0, OK
mmc0 is current device
Scanning mmc 0:1...
Found U-Boot script /boot/boot.scr
load - load binary file from a filesystem

Usage:
load <interface> [<dev[:part]> [<addr> [<filename> [bytes [pos]]]]]
    - Load binary file 'filename' from partition 'part' on device
       type 'interface' instance 'dev' to address 'addr' in memory.
      'bytes' gives the size to load in bytes.
      If 'bytes' is 0 or omitted, the file is read until the end.
      'pos' gives the file byte position to start reading from.
      If 'pos' is 0 or omitted, the file is read from the start.
## Executing script at 06000000
Wrong image format for "source" command
SCRIPT FAILED: continuing...
libfdt fdt_check_header(): FDT_ERR_BADMAGIC
Scanning disk sdhci@d0000.blk...
Found 2 disks
No EFI system partition
ERROR: invalid device tree
starting USB...
Bus usb@58000: Register 2000104 NbrPorts 2
Starting the controller
USB XHCI 1.00
Bus usb@5e000: USB EHCI 1.00
scanning bus usb@58000 for devices... 1 USB Device(s) found
scanning bus usb@5e000 for devices... 1 USB Device(s) found
       scanning usb for storage devices... 0 Storage Device(s) found

Device 0: unknown device
scanning bus for devices...

Device 0: unknown device
(NULL udevice *): mvneta_setup_txqs: can't create txq=0
BOOTP broadcast 1
timeout: packet not sent
BOOTP broadcast 2
timeout: packet not sent
BOOTP broadcast 3
timeout: packet not sent

My printenv:

=> printenv
boot_a_script=load ${devtype} ${devnum}:${distro_bootpart} ${scriptaddr} ${prefix}${script}; source ${scriptaddr}
boot_efi_binary=load ${devtype} ${devnum}:${distro_bootpart} ${kernel_addr_r} efi/boot/bootaa64.efi; if fdt addr ${fdt_addr_r}; then bootefi ${kei
boot_efi_bootmgr=if fdt addr ${fdt_addr_r}; then bootefi bootmgr ${fdt_addr_r};else bootefi bootmgr;fi
boot_extlinux=sysboot ${devtype} ${devnum}:${distro_bootpart} any ${scriptaddr} ${prefix}${boot_syslinux_conf}
boot_net_usb_start=usb start
boot_pci_enum=pci enum
boot_prefixes=/ /boot/
boot_script_dhcp=boot.scr.uimg
boot_scripts=boot.scr.uimg boot.scr
boot_syslinux_conf=extlinux/extlinux.conf
boot_targets=mmc1 mmc0 usb0 scsi0 pxe dhcp 
bootcmd=run distro_bootcmd
bootcmd_dhcp=devtype=dhcp; run boot_net_usb_start; run boot_pci_enum; if dhcp ${scriptaddr} ${boot_script_dhcp}; then source ${scriptaddr}; fi;se;
bootcmd_mmc0=devnum=0; run mmc_boot
bootcmd_mmc1=devnum=1; run mmc_boot
bootcmd_pxe=run boot_net_usb_start; run boot_pci_enum; dhcp; if pxe get; then pxe boot; fi
bootcmd_scsi0=devnum=0; run scsi_boot
bootcmd_usb0=devnum=0; run usb_boot
bootfstype=ext4
criptaddr=0x6d00000
distro_bootcmd=scsi_need_init=; setenv nvme_need_init; for target in ${boot_targets}; do run bootcmd_${target}; done
efi_dtb_prefixes=/ /dtb/ /dtb/current/
eth1addr=00:51:82:11:22:01
eth2addr=00:51:82:11:22:02
eth3addr=00:51:82:11:22:03
ethact=ethernet@30000
ethaddr=00:51:82:11:22:00
fdt_addr=0x6f00000
fdt_addr_r=0x6f00000
fdtcontroladdr=7fadcf40
fdtfile=marvell/armada-3720-espressobin-v7.dtb
kernel_addr=0x7000000
kernel_addr_r=0x7000000
load_efi_dtb=load ${devtype} ${devnum}:${distro_bootpart} ${fdt_addr_r} ${prefix}${efi_fdtfile}
mmc_boot=if mmc dev ${devnum}; then devtype=mmc; run scan_dev_for_boot_part; fi
nvme_boot=run boot_pci_enum; run nvme_init; if nvme dev ${devnum}; then devtype=nvme; run scan_dev_for_boot_part; fi
nvme_init=if ${nvme_need_init}; then setenv nvme_need_init false; nvme scan; fi
pxefile_addr_r=0x6e00000
ramdisk_addr_r=0xa000000
sata_boot=if sata dev ${devnum}; then devtype=sata; run scan_dev_for_boot_part; fi
scan_dev_for_boot=echo Scanning ${devtype} ${devnum}:${distro_bootpart}...; for prefix in ${boot_prefixes}; do run scan_dev_for_extlinux; run sca;
scan_dev_for_boot_part=part list ${devtype} ${devnum} -bootable devplist; env exists devplist || setenv devplist 1; for distro_bootpart in ${devpt
scan_dev_for_efi=setenv efi_fdtfile ${fdtfile}; for prefix in ${efi_dtb_prefixes}; do if test -e ${devtype} ${devnum}:${distro_bootpart} ${prefixe
scan_dev_for_extlinux=if test -e ${devtype} ${devnum}:${distro_bootpart} ${prefix}${boot_syslinux_conf}; then echo Found ${prefix}${boot_syslinuxi
scan_dev_for_scripts=for script in ${boot_scripts}; do if test -e ${devtype} ${devnum}:${distro_bootpart} ${prefix}${script}; then echo Found U-Be
scsi_boot=run boot_pci_enum; run scsi_init; if scsi dev ${devnum}; then devtype=scsi; run scan_dev_for_boot_part; fi
scsi_init=if ${scsi_need_init}; then scsi_need_init=false; scsi scan; fi
stderr=serial@12000
stdin=serial@12000
stdout=serial@12000
usb_boot=usb start; if usb dev ${devnum}; then devtype=usb; run scan_dev_for_boot_part; fi
ver=U-Boot 2022.04-armbian (May 16 2022 - 17:50:52 +0000)

Environment size: 4408/65532 bytes