[U-Boot] Cubieboard2 uboot 2016.09.01 not supporting booting from sata

[Robert Moskowitz]

Dear listers,

It has been over a year since I have built a new system and tried to set 
up to boot from sata.

What I did in the past was to use a small mSD card with only the uboot 
bin and no partitions.

All my partitions for either Fedrora25 or Centos7 are on the sata. I 
should boot up, the system sees no partitions on the mSD, it scans for 
other devices, finds the sata and proceeds from there.

Something must have changed in the past year.  Or else my notes on what 
to do are incomplete.

Can you help?  Here is a capture of a boot attempt with F25 on the sata:


U-Boot SPL 2016.09.01 (Oct 19 2016 - 13:46:44)
DRAM: 1024 MiB
CPU: 912000000Hz, AXI/AHB/APB: 3/2/2
Trying to boot from MMC1


U-Boot 2016.09.01 (Oct 19 2016 - 13:46:44 +0000) Allwinner Technology

CPU:   Allwinner A20 (SUN7I)
Model: Cubietech Cubieboard2
I2C:   ready
DRAM:  1 GiB
MMC:   SUNXI SD/MMC: 0
In:    serial
Out:   serial
Err:   serial
SCSI:  Target spinup took 0 ms.
AHCI 0001.0100 32 slots 1 ports 3 Gbps 0x1 impl SATA mode
flags: ncq stag pm led clo only pmp pio slum part ccc apst
Net:   eth0: ethernet at 01c50000
Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0
** Invalid partition 1 **
** Invalid partition 1 **
** Invalid partition 1 **
=>

thank you
Bob