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

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 12/20/2016 09:14 AM, Jagan Teki wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 2:41 PM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote:
>> 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 **
>> =>
> try latest master and also please give some more command log,  sata
> part or similar

I can not build a uboot; I have to take what is available.  Where can I 
get a newer Cubieboard2 uboot?

And that is the sum total output appearing on the console.  If there is 
more to tease out somehow, please tell me.

thank you