[U-Boot] U-Boot 2012.10 PXA270 - saveenv / Kernel issue

Vasily Khoruzhick anarsoul at gmail.com
Sun Nov 11 21:58:28 CET 2012


On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 10:10 PM, Andreas Puls <appu at gmx.net> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
>
> i have a problem with the latest stable U-Boot 2012.10 and a Toradex
> Colibri PXA270 V2.4a Board and a upating the kernel.
>
> The problem apears when i erase the hole NOR Flash, copy the uboot and
> the uImage.
>
> Here are my steps.
>
> 1.  unprotect and erase the hole flash.
> 2.  copy the latest u-boot.bin to flash
> 2.1 usb start
> 2.2 fatload usb 0:1 0xa0000000 u-boot.bin
> 2.3 protect off 0x0 0x3ffff
> 2.4 erase 0x0 0x3ffff
> 2.5 cp.b 0xa0000000 0x0 $filesize
> 3   reset to look the u-boot is installed
> 3.1 see that CRC is bad (normal behavier couse no defaults are written)
> 3.2 savenv and powercyle
> 4.  all fine
> 5.  copy kernel image to flash
> 5.1 usb start
> 5.2 fatload usb 0:1 0xa0000000 uimage-2.6.35.9-toradex-pxa270v22b
> 5.3 protect off 0xc0000 0x47ffff
> 5.4 erase 0xc0000 0x47ffff
> 5.5 cp.b 0xa0000000 0xc0000 $filesize
> 6.  check the uImage
> 6.1 iminfo 0xC00000 - OK
> 7.  hard reset (power cycle)
>
> Now comes the part that i dosen't understand
> The U-Boot loader sayes again that the CRC is bad and using default values.
> I use "saveenv" again and make a powercycle.
> The CRC error is no more but the u-boot isnt able to boot the uImage.
> It sayes unkown Image format
>
>
> Sory for the long description. I search the mailing but didnt found
> something.
>
> The latest Toradex Bootloader is u-boot 1.3.3 there is the saveenv and
> Kernel update working. But the USB support isnt working.
>
> Could anybody give me hint or maybe know the solution ?

Hi Andreas,

Looks like env overlap kernel, check env address and size in flash

Regards
Vasily

> Kind regards
>  Andreas
>
>
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