[U-Boot-Users] Fail Safe: Redundant U-boot Images in Flash????

[Thomas Lange]

Roberts, John wrote:

>The code at the entry point needs to be small, reliable and never require an
>upgrade in the field. This code would run a CRC on the primary U-boot image
>to determine if it's safe to boot, upon CRC failure verify then run the
>backup image.
>
>For remote systems we need to resolve the issue of upgrade failure without
>human intervention - or perhaps remote human intervention.
>  
>
We have done this on our board "gth".
We use a pre-loader called miniboot:
http://opensource.se/projects/miniboot/index.html

Miniboot choose which of two u-boot images to boot by checking CRC.

Regards,
/Thomas