Totally wrecked my ENV

[Udo Waechter]

Thank you very much Wolfgang,

reinstalling U-Boot helped.

Cheers,
udo.

On 24/03/2020 15:18, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Udo,
> 
> In message <a70e84c8-506b-f61f-2884-0798a43cecc3 at zoide.net> you wrote:
>>
>> while trying to set the mac-address of a device in u-boot I somehow
>> wrecked the whole thing.
>>
>> I think I did 'setenv eth0addr xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx' followed by 'saveenv'
>> After that, my device tells me "Unknown command 'run' - try 'help'" and
>> also "Unknown command 'env' - try 'help'"
> 
> I can't imagine of a situation where a correctly running U-Boot
> would suffer in such a way from any misspelled environment settings.
> 
>> I seemed to me that some wrong quoting in the above 'setenv' command
>> messed up all the strings.
> 
> No, the cause of the problem must be elsewhere.
> 
>> I'm lost now, how can I achienve a total reset of my ENV?
> 
> Resetting your environment will not help.  When U-Boot cannot find
> command names like run or printenv, it's internal data  stuctures
> have been corrupted, and this will not go away if you clean up the
> environment.  You must reflash the whole U-Boot image.  If you can
> still boot into Linux, I would use this to write the new U-Boot
> image, as you cannot really trust your U-Boot any more.  If not, and
> you can still load and flash an image in U-Boot, then try that.  If
> this doesn't work either, then you probably have to use a JTAG
> debugger (if you have a JTAG connector on your board).
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Wolfgang Denk
> 

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