Beagleboard not booting

Chetan_Nanda · November 25, 2009, 3:26pm

Hi,

First of all I am a complete newbie for beagleboard. I have purchased
a new C3 beagleboard and facing issues with it while booting:

1. If try to boot using AC power supply, then there is no prints on
console but board seems to boot as after some time LEDS start glowing.
2. If try to boot using USB power supply then it keeps on printing
'Texas Instruments X-loader ....' continuously.
3. When I tried with pressing USER button while bootup, then also few
U-boot prints followed by CRC error ...
4. I also tried 'pserial' (OMAP utility) to load u-boot.bin image to
board. While file is being getting downloaded 'Texas Instruments X-
loader ....' prints do not appear on board. But immediately after
download completes these prints start coming.

Currently I don't have SD or MMC card and I want to boot u-boot from
UART port.
Am I missing anything here .... or its a hardware issue?

Thanks,
Chetan Nanda

Dan_Poirot · November 25, 2009, 3:58pm

Stop everything and check to be sure of the AC supply voltage and
polarity. 5.0 volts only.

There aren't enough Beagleboards to go around so we sure don't want to
lose another one to a power issue!

The SD card image at the bottom of the ESC page is a great place to start:
http://beagleboard.org/esc

- dan

Chetan_Nanda · November 25, 2009, 4:28pm

Stop everything and check to be sure of the AC supply voltage and
polarity. 5.0 volts only.

There aren’t enough Beagleboards to go around so we sure don’t want to
lose another one to a power issue!

The SD card image at the bottom of the ESC page is a great place to start:
http://beagleboard.org/esc

Hi Dan,

As I don’t have SD and MMC card with me right now. So only option that left for me is booting via UART port.
I was trying recovering procedure as mentioned on:

http://elinux.org/BeagleBoardRecovery

But ‘ukermit’ failed with following error:
root@chetan-laptop:~/Desktop/boot_omap3_serial# ./ukermit -p /dev/ttyUSB0 -f u-boot.bin
Failed after 4 retries in sequence 0 - success send = 0 bytes
Data transmit failed

I am not able to make any progress so far on this front. Any suggestion would be most welcomed

Thanks,
Chetan Nanda

rakshat_hooja · November 25, 2009, 5:16pm

http://elinux.org/BeagleBoardBeginners#Checking_everything_is_working

Do the lights come up in the sequence mentioned in the wiki page?

Rakshat

Chetan_Nanda · November 25, 2009, 5:26pm

Hi,

First of all I am a complete newbie for beagleboard. I have purchased
a new C3 beagleboard and facing issues with it while booting:

If try to boot using AC power supply, then there is no prints on
console but board seems to boot as after some time LEDS start glowing.

If try to boot using USB power supply then it keeps on printing
‘Texas Instruments X-loader …’ continuously.

http://elinux.org/BeagleBoardBeginners#Checking_everything_is_working

Do the lights come up in the sequence mentioned in the wiki page?

When powered using USB cable, only power LED is lit up.
Also when i tried with booting while USER button pressed following prints appear on console:

U-Boot 2009.01-dirty (Feb 19 2009 - 12:22:31)

I2C: ready
OMAP3530-GP rev 2, CPU-OPP2 L3-165MHz
OMAP3 Beagle board + LPDDR/NAND
DRAM: 256 MB
NAND: 256 MiB
*** Warning - bad CRC or NAND, using default environment

MUSB: using high speed
In: serial usbtty
Out: serial usbtty
Err: serial usbtty
40V

Texas Instruments X-Loader 1.4.2 (Feb 19 2009 - 12:01:24)
Loading u-boot.bin from nand

U-Boot 2009.01-dirty (Feb 19 2009 - 12:22:31)

I2C: ready
OMAP3530-GP rev 2, CPU-OPP2 L3-165MHz
OMAP3 Beagle board + LPDDR/NAND
DRAM: 256 MB
NAND: 256 MiB

Thanks,
Chetan Nanda

rakshat_hooja · November 25, 2009, 5:47pm

http://elinux.org/BeagleBoardBeginners#Checking_everything_is_working

Do the lights come up in the sequence mentioned in the wiki page?

When powered using USB cable, only power LED is lit up.
Also when i tried with booting while USER button pressed following prints appear on console:

U-Boot 2009.01-dirty (Feb 19 2009 - 12:22:31)

I2C: ready
OMAP3530-GP rev 2, CPU-OPP2 L3-165MHz
OMAP3 Beagle board + LPDDR/NAND
DRAM: 256 MB
NAND: 256 MiB
*** Warning - bad CRC or NAND, using default environment

MUSB: using high speed
In: serial usbtty
Out: serial usbtty
Err: serial usbtty
40V

Texas Instruments X-Loader 1.4.2 (Feb 19 2009 - 12:01:24)
Loading u-boot.bin from nand

U-Boot 2009.01-dirty (Feb 19 2009 - 12:22:31)

I2C: ready
OMAP3530-GP rev 2, CPU-OPP2 L3-165MHz
OMAP3 Beagle board + LPDDR/NAND
DRAM: 256 MB
NAND: 256 MiB

Thanks,
Chetan Nanda

I would think that this means that the board is ok and you have a u-boot on nand but no image to boot (or maybe a corrupted u-boot). Maybe others can help more but if you can get a SD card i would suggest that you try the full validation -

http://code.google.com/p/beagleboard/wiki/BeagleboardRevCValidation

Rakshat

Chetan_Nanda · November 26, 2009, 4:15am

http://elinux.org/BeagleBoardBeginners#Checking_everything_is_working

Do the lights come up in the sequence mentioned in the wiki page?

When powered using USB cable, only power LED is lit up.
Also when i tried with booting while USER button pressed following prints appear on console:

U-Boot 2009.01-dirty (Feb 19 2009 - 12:22:31)

I2C: ready
OMAP3530-GP rev 2, CPU-OPP2 L3-165MHz
OMAP3 Beagle board + LPDDR/NAND
DRAM: 256 MB
NAND: 256 MiB
*** Warning - bad CRC or NAND, using default environment

MUSB: using high speed
In: serial usbtty
Out: serial usbtty
Err: serial usbtty
40V

Texas Instruments X-Loader 1.4.2 (Feb 19 2009 - 12:01:24)
Loading u-boot.bin from nand

U-Boot 2009.01-dirty (Feb 19 2009 - 12:22:31)

I2C: ready
OMAP3530-GP rev 2, CPU-OPP2 L3-165MHz
OMAP3 Beagle board + LPDDR/NAND
DRAM: 256 MB
NAND: 256 MiB

Thanks,
Chetan Nanda

I would think that this means that the board is ok and you have a u-boot on nand but no image to boot (or maybe a corrupted u-boot). Maybe others can help more but if you can get a SD card i would suggest that you try the full validation -

http://code.google.com/p/beagleboard/wiki/BeagleboardRevCValidation

Ok, I will get a SD card before digging any more into this problem.
Is there any prefrence to SD card and SD card reader for beagleboard?

Thanks,
Chetan Nanda

Kai_Howells · November 26, 2009, 11:19am

I would think that this means that the board is ok and you have a u-boot on nand but no image to boot (or maybe a corrupted u-boot). Maybe others can help more but if you can get a SD card i would suggest that you try the full validation -

http://code.google.com/p/beagleboard/wiki/BeagleboardRevCValidation

Ok, I will get a SD card before digging any more into this problem.
Is there any prefrence to SD card and SD card reader for beagleboard?

Thanks,
Chetan Nanda

I always go with a reputable brand for the card, but pretty much any USB reader will do the trick. I personally use SanDisk SD cards, as they’re so cheap in the 2GB and smaller size, and I went with the cheapest SD card reader I could find at a computer swap-meet…

Cheers,
Kai

Chetan_Nanda · November 26, 2009, 4:53pm

I have got a SD card and follow the procedure as specified on:
http://code.google.com/p/beagleboard/wiki/BeagleboardRevClidation

But, still no success, following is the output:

alam · November 29, 2009, 5:14am

I am having the same issue, I was able to go to the log-in screen but
after entering user name as password, beagle board is printing Texas
Instruments X-Loader 1.4.2 (Feb 19 2009 - 12:01:24) to hyper term.

Texas Instruments X-Loader 1.4.2 (Feb 19 2009 - 12:01:24)
Reading boot sector
Loading u-boot.bin from mmc

U-Boot 2009.01-dirty (Feb 19 2009 - 12:23:21)

I2C: ready
OMAP3530-GP rev 2, CPU-OPP2 L3-165MHz
OMAP3 Beagle board + LPDDR/NAND
DRAM: 256 MB
NAND: 256 MiB
Using default environment

MUSB: using high speed
In: serial usbtty
Out: serial usbtty
Err: serial usbtty

Texas Instruments X-Loader 1.4.2 (Feb 19 2009 - 12:01:24)

Any help will be good, please email me at fakhre@rocketmail.com

Thanks.
Fakhre Alam

Chetan_Nanda · December 10, 2009, 4:10am

Hi,

Finally, I am able to boot my beagleboard and reached upto u-boot prompt.
To sum-up, i face following two problems:

USB OTG cable that I was using earlier has some power drop and, it seems, because of that board is not able to proceed further and keeps printing on console.
‘Texas Instruments X-Loader 1.4.2 (Feb 19 2009 - 12:01:24)’
Serial cable that I got from the vendor (serial pins to DB9 cable) was not the straight one:
http://elinux.org/BeagleBoardFAQ#Serial_connection_.231

Still a way to go ahead…

Thanks,
Chetan Nanda

Maxime · February 4, 2010, 6:01pm

Hello everyone I am looking for support to flash my board.

I flash a uboot home maid (my the reason why it doesnt' boot
anymore ;)) and I try to get it back !

I am trying the recovery through the UART. I flashed the xloader with
the pserial command
Waiting For Device ASIC ID: Press Ctrl+C to stop
ASIC ID Detected.
Sending 2ndFile:
Downloading file: 100.000% completed(56869/56869 bytes)
File download completed.

but this doesn't work TT
/Bureau/boot_omap3_serial$ ./ukermit -p /dev/ttyUSB0 -f u-boot.bin -d
500
Failed after 4 retries in sequence 0 - success send = 0 bytes
Data transmit failed

Any idea ?

Thank you

Gerald_Coley1 · February 4, 2010, 6:43pm

Have you tried the SD card method? Just make an SD card as described at http://code.google.com/p/beagleboard/wiki/BeagleboardRevCValidation.

Insert it into Beagle and press and reease the reset buton while holding the user button down.

Now if this is a rev C4 board, then you should use the files located at http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/demo/beagleboard/ instead of the ones listed at the validation site.

Gerald