[U-Boot] ERROR: new format image overwritten ? must reset the board to recover

Tom Rini trini at ti.com
Thu Jul 11 16:55:01 CEST 2013


On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 10:08:13PM -0400, David Lee wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> We had U-Boot booting Linux just fine.  Then after some minor cleanup, we
> rebuild the images.
> 
> Thereafter, we are now seeing U-Boot reporting the error below:
> 
> *"ERROR: new format image overwritten ?** must reset the board to recover"*
> 
> We tried reverting the minor cleanup we had done and then rebuild the
> images.  But we are still still getting the same U-Boot error message with
> the board reset after the Linux image was decompressed.  We are at a loss
> at what the problem is.
> 
> Any thoughts or guidance would be much appreciated.

Well, using 'git grep' I see this means you have an overlap between
where the contents were loaded into memory and where they want to
execute in memory.  Changing where you load into memory and where you
execute so that they do not overlap is probably the easiest fix.

-- 
Tom
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