Clearfog Base:Trouble flashing bootable card

Learnincurve · June 13, 2017

Hi,

On my Clearfog base, I have one bootable SDHC card that I made some time ago, using

Title: Armbian 5.25 Clearfogbase Debian Jessie next

Kernel: Linux 4.9.7

Build date: 02.02.2017

I can't remember, but think that I flashed the card from Linux using dd bs=1M

What I do remember was having some trouble back then, flashing a card that would boot and remember several attempts, using several different images. I also remember that the board dip switches were in the wrong positions as delivered from the factory and that my first attempts failed because of that.

Having sorted that out and using the image described above, the system now boots (mostly) using this card, but I did want to try using a stable image now, so have been trying to flash an identical sd card using one of the current, stable images.

I have now been forced over to using a Windows 10 machine, so am trying the recommended, 7zip, then Etcher approach. I clean format the card, then point Etcher at the image and card.

I have tried this approach with:

Armbian_5.27_Clearfogbase_Ubuntu_xenial_default_4.4.70.img

Armbian_5.27_Clearfogbase_Debian_jessie_next_4.11.3.img

Armbian_5.27_Clearfogbase_Debian_jessie_default_4.4.70.img

All of them are giving the same boot problem:

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        | | | |___| _ \ / _ \ / _ \| __|
        | |_| |___| |_) | (_) | (_) | |_
         \___/    |____/ \___/ \___/ \__|
** LOADER **

U-Boot 2013.01 (Apr 07 2017 - 21:42:19) Marvell version: 2015_T1.0p11

Board: A38x-Customer-Board-1
SoC:   MV88F6828 Rev A0
       running 2 CPUs
CPU:   ARM Cortex A9 MPCore (Rev 1) LE
       CPU 0
       CPU    @ 1600 [MHz]
       L2     @ 800 [MHz]
       TClock @ 250 [MHz]
       DDR3    @ 800 [MHz]
       DDR3 32 Bit Width,FastPath Memory Access, DLB Enabled, ECC Disabled
DRAM: 1 GiB
MMC:   mv_sdh: 0
*** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment

PCI-e 0: Detected No Link.
PCI-e 1: Detected No Link.
USB2.0 0: Host Mode
USB3.0 0: Host Mode
USB3.0 1: Host Mode

Map:   Code:                    0x3fed4000:0x3ff9831c
       BSS:                     0x3ffefd5c
       Stack:                   0x3f9c3f20
       Heap:                    0x3f9c4000:0x3fed4000
       U-Boot Environment:      0x000f0000:0x00100000 (MMC)

Board configuration detected:
Net:
| port | Interface | PHY address |
|--------|-----------|--------------|
| egiga0 |   RGMII   |     0x00     |
| egiga1 |   SGMII   |   In-Band    |
| egiga2 |   SGMII   |   In-Band    |
egiga0 [PRIME], egiga1, egiga2
Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0
Trying to boot from MMC
1565 bytes read in 68 ms (22.5 KiB/s)
## Executing script at 03000000
Boot script loaded from mmc
Unknown command 'load' - try 'help'
Unknown command 'load' - try 'help'
Unknown command 'load' - try 'help'
Unknown command 'load' - try 'help'
Bad Linux ARM zImage magic!
Trying to boot from USB
(Re)start USB...
USB0:   Port (usbActive) : 1    Interface (usbType = 3) : USB XHCI 1.00
scanning bus 0 for devices... 1 USB Device(s) found
       scanning usb for storage devices... 0 Storage Device(s) found
       scanning usb for ethernet devices... 0 Ethernet Device(s) found
** Bad device usb 0 **
** Bad device usb 0 **
## Executing script at 03000000
Boot script loaded from usb
Unknown command 'load' - try 'help'
Unknown command 'load' - try 'help'
Unknown command 'load' - try 'help'
Unknown command 'load' - try 'help'
Bad Linux ARM zImage magic!
Default boot sequence failed - falling back to TFTP
Using egiga0 device
TFTP from server 10.4.50.38; our IP address is 10.4.50.170
Filename 'uImage'.
Load address: 0x2000000
Loading: T T T T T T T T T T
Retry count exceeded; starting again
Using egiga0 device
TFTP from server 10.4.50.38; our IP address is 10.4.50.170
Filename 'armada-388-clearfog.dtb'.
Load address: 0x2000000
Loading: T T T T T T T T T T
Retry count exceeded; starting again
Bad Linux ARM zImage magic!
Marvell>>

Please can someone suggest what I am doing wrong?

Best regards

Marius

zador.blood.stained · June 13, 2017

Please use 5.25 images from https://dl.armbian.com/clearfogbase/archive/ or wait for the 5.30 release. I'm not sure why we have 5.27 images for some boards, they shouldn't be there.