InterAct 0 February 4 Hi, I've just created a SD-card with Armbian Bionic (mainline kernel 4.19.y) for a Hummingboard Gate. I noticed during boot that it says it uses U-boot version 2013.10-rc4. This seems quite old compared to the 2018 version that was on the Debian Stretch image from SolidRun. I've tried to search the internet to see what the impact of something like this is and wasn't able to find something that made sense to me (could be entirely my fault). I therefore have the question: Is the U-boot version intentional? (maybe it has some features that newer versions have dropped.) 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Igor 1567 February 4 1 hour ago, InterAct said: Is the U-boot version intentional? Yes. I tried several times to move on to new kernel u-boot, but out of my three Solidrun boards, only one could boot successfully. With the old kernel, they all boots. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mhuybrechts 0 February 6 What SolidRun boards do you have and at which revision? I think I can help out. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Igor 1567 February 6 Left one / single core: U-Boot SPL 2018.01-armbian (Feb 06 2019 - 11:52:19) SPL: Unsupported Boot Device! Trying to boot from USB SDP SDP: initialize... Right one / quad core: U-Boot 2018.01-armbian (Feb 06 2019 - 11:52:19 +0100) CPU: Freescale i.MX6Q rev1.5 996 MHz (running at 792 MHz) CPU: Extended Commercial temperature grade (-20C to 105C) at 23C Reset cause: POR Board: MX6 HummingBoard2 Watchdog enabled DRAM: 2 GiB MMC: FSL_SDHC: 0, FSL_SDHC: 1 MMC partition switch failed *** Warning - MMC partition switch failed, using default environment No panel detected: default to HDMI Display: HDMI (1024x768) In: serial Out: serial Err: serial MMC partition switch failed !MMC partition switch failed Cubox quad and Hummingboard v1 works. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mhuybrechts 0 April 11 I see those are old boards, but they should still work with the latest uBoot I think. Which version did you flash, the emmc or the sdhc (https://developer.solid-run.com/knowledge-base/i-mx6-u-boot/, https://images.solid-build.xyz/IMX6/U-Boot/), and what jumper config did you have/do you boot from SD card of from emmc? We've successfully installed on both and for emmc we use this extlinux.conf: cat /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf menu title Select the boot mode TIMEOUT 30 DEFAULT default LABEL default LINUX ../zImage INITRD ../uInitrd FDT ../imx6dl-hummingboard2.dtb APPEND root=/dev/mmcblk1p1 ro rootfstype=ext4 rootwait console=ttymxc0,115200 console=tty0 consoleblank=0 video=mxcfb0:dev=hdmi,1920x1080m60,if=RGB24,bpp=32 rd.dm=0 rd.luks=0 rd.lvm=0 raid=noautodetect pci=nomsi vt.global_cursor_default=1 loglevel=5 usb-storage.quirks=0x2537:0x1066:u,0x2537:0x1068:u fsck.repair=yes LABEL armbian LINUX ../zImage INITRD ../uInitrd FDT ../dtb/imx6dl-hummingboard2.dtb APPEND root=/dev/mmcblk1p1 ro rootfstype=ext4 rootwait console=tty1 console=ttymxc0,115200 consoleblank=0 video=mxcfb0:dev=hdmi,1920x1080m60,if=RGB24,bpp=32 rd.dm=0 rd.luks=0 rd.lvm=0 raid=noautodetect pci=nomsi vt.global_cursor_default=0 loglevel=3 usb-storage.quirks=0x2537:0x1066:u,0x2537:0x1068:u fsck.repair=yes LABEL recovery LINUX ../zImage INITRD ../uInitrd FDTDIR ../dtb/ APPEND root=/dev/mmcblk1p1 ro rootfstype=auto rootwait init=/bin/bash This is with an edited dtb for the extra serial port on J35 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
amndan 0 April 13 On 2/4/2019 at 6:10 PM, Igor said: Yes. I tried several times to move on to new kernel u-boot, but out of my three Solidrun boards, only one could boot successfully. With the old kernel, they all boots. I am writing to confirm the behavior Igor has encountered. With my "old" hummingboard2 it is exactly the same. It is not running the u-boot image from SolidRun. It stops at "!MMC partition switch failed". I am loading u-boot from SD I think, because older images from SolidRun can be loaded correctly with the board, If flashing them on a SD card. I will follow this thread and contribute if there is something to check or test. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
amndan 0 April 15 I am in contact with SR regarding this issue. Got the following Information: "You are using the older revision 1.2 of the Hummingboard2 carrier. This revision is known to have issues with its boot select headers. Boot select is not reliable unless you fuse the SoC itself. Have you fused the SoC boot select fuses?" Probably this helps. I am not sure, if I fused my board. I Will check this next. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
