Quick info: I can’t get my beagleboard to run using various instructions i have seen online.
Detailed info and background:
I have inherited a Beagleboard C4 with Zippy ethernet combo board (currently not connected) from another project. It comes with a custom rolled OE operating system on a 4GB MMC. In an effort to understand how the beagelboard works, I have attempted to install my own OS on the beagleboard without much success.
Referring to the manual BB_SRM, I attempted to follow the steps in section 12.2 “Out of the Box”. I received no output in the terminal window, (which is configured correctly as 115200 8N1).
Not dwelling to long on that, I moved on to 12.3 “SD Card Configuration”. The link on page 131 of the manual,
http://code.google.com/p/beagleboard/wiki/BeagleboardRevCValidation
led me to
http://code.google.com/p/beagleboard/wiki/BeagleboardRevC3Validation
which led me to
http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/demo/beagleboard/
Using the instructions found on the last link above, i generated a 2 GB MMC with boot partition containing MLO and u-boot.bin, and Angstrom partition with a seemingly standard linux root filesystem. Booting the beagleboard with this MMC, this is the output i receive before it stops (this is also effectively the result with the USER button held down):
Texas Instruments X-Loader 1.5.1 (Jul 20 2011 - 09:50:57)
Beagle Re
v C4
Reading boot sector
Loading u-boot.bin from mmc
U-Boot 2011.06-dirty (Jul 19 2011 - 17:30:34)
OMAP3530-GP ES3.1,
CPU-OPP2, L3-165MHz, Max CPU Clock 720 mHz
OMAP3 Beagle board + LPDDR/NAND
I2C:
ready
DRAM: 256 MiB
NAND: 256 MiB
MMC: OMAP SD/MMC: 0
In: serial
Out: serial
Err: serial
Beagle Rev C4
timed out in wait_for_pin: I2C_STAT=0
I2C read: I/O error
Unrecognized expansion board: 0
Die ID #67e0002400000000040365fa12021008
Net: Net Initialization Skipped
No ethernet found.
Hit any key to stop autoboot: 3
\0x08\0x08\0x08 2
\0x08\0x08\0x08 1
\0x08\0x08\0x08 0
mmc - MMC sub system
Usage:
mmc read addr blk# cnt
mmc write
addr blk# cnt
mmc rescan
mmc part - lists available partition on current mmc device
mmc dev [dev] [part] - show or set current mmc device [partition]
mmc list - lists available devices
Booting from nand …
NAND read: device 0 offset 0x280000, size 0x400000
4194304 bytes read: OK
Wrong Image Format for bootm command
ERROR: can’t get kernel image
!
OMAP3 beagleboard.org #
I have also tried to use a Ubuntu image with instructions from https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM/OmapNetbook and http://elinux.org/BeagleBoardUbuntu#NetInstall_Method, both of which resulted in similar results, namely “Wrong Image Format for bootm command ERROR: can’t get kernel image”
Any help would be most appreciated.
thanks,
Sascha