[U-Boot-Users] sam9263ek not booting uboot dataflash

[E Robertson]

On 2/12/08, Ulf Samuelsson <ulf.samuelsson at atmel.com> wrote:
>
> >> > Once I start using sam7 util, the bootstrap code has not been executed
> >> > which means the SDRAM has not been initialized. I'll have to added the
> >> > lowlevel init to do that, which I might try if nothing else works.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> You don't understand:
> >>
> >> - flash all arm9load & u-boot
> >> - loady <address> u-boot-mod
> >> - go <address>
> >
> > I'm tying this method. I had to go to kermit because I never had
> > suscess loading serially with minicom.  I had problems with kermit in
> > the past but couldn't remember what it was... until now.  I've always
> > had fatal errors after a few bytes are transmitted. I get some error,
> > then it tries to resend but had too many errors. I'm not really sure
> > how to get past this as I'm configured the serial line accordingly.
> > Is this a common "user error" problem with ckermit? I've double
> > checked my config option with uboot docs.
> >
>
> I have used "minicom" a lot when downloading to the AT91RM9200,
> but I use the special downloading program which I found somewhere
> and included in the U-Boot-1.1.2 found on buildroot.uclibc.org.
>
> Did you try programming from Windows using SAM-BA?

ckermit will work just fine and I rather stick to my linux system.
Linux can do everything windows does... and more.

Thanks.