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

[Jagan Teki]

On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 3:55 PM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote:
>
>
> 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?

Don't understand what do you mean by this, cant' you able to build
Cubieboard2_defconfig on latest?

thanks!
-- 
Jagan Teki
Free Software Engineer | www.openedev.com
U-Boot, Linux | Upstream Maintainer
Hyderabad, India.