Hi All,
We have a custom board built around the Beagle board which doesn't
have anything more that BootROM.
Could you please outline the steps / point to the page which talks
about the bring up of an empty board.?
Thanks,
rvs
a lot of stuff!
P.S. you better have SD connector on your design otherwise it’s gonna be painful 
Max
2010/5/27 Renu <renus.joshi@gmail.com>
Thanks Max. I have found plenty of information on the elinux site.
Yes, we do have an SD connector; so planning to boot up the board
using the SD card.
It doesn't seem a herculean task if the SD interface on board works
fine.
On another note, the site also talks about the USB and serial (UART)
boot utilities. Why can't we use them for the first time boot ?
Renu,
you can try to use USB or UART to start over and then tell us if they work. I’m not sure they do
Let’s say using SD is a trivial way and USB/UART is more sophisticated one because you need to compile the software yourself.
regards,
Max
2010/5/28 Renu <renus.joshi@gmail.com>
Hi Max,
you can try to use USB or UART to start over and then tell us if they work. I’m not sure they do
Let’s say using SD is a trivial way and USB/UART is more sophisticated one because you need to compile the software yourself.
I have successfully flashed Gumstix using both UART and USB and it’s working with no problems. I’m (unfortunately) using a closed source Windows tool on the PC, so I don’t have any step by step description I have followed myself recently. For a open source peripheral booting set of tools please find further information (including a step by step guide) at the following pages:
Best regards - Good luck Søren
Hmm – I’m apparently half asleep J – But the same answer goes for Beagleboard as well as other custom made OMAP3 based boards –
UART and USB booting is normally working straight out of the box following information like what’s described in the links below
/ Søren
Hi Max,
you can try to use USB or UART to start over and then tell us if they work. I’m not sure they do
Let’s say using SD is a trivial way and USB/UART is more sophisticated one because you need to compile the software yourself.
I have successfully flashed Gumstix using both UART and USB and it’s working with no problems. I’m (unfortunately) using a closed source Windows tool on the PC, so I don’t have any step by step description I have followed myself recently. For a open source peripheral booting set of tools please find further information (including a step by step guide) at the following pages:
http://nishanthmenon.blogspot.com/2009/01/beagleboard-recovery-take-2.html
http://elinux.org/BeagleBoardRecovery
Best regards - Good luck
Søren
Yes Max. I am sure to post the outcome if I could do first time boot
from USB/UART successfully. We have a delay in getting the custom
boards built. So it will be some time before there is some update
from me.
Regards,
Renu
Thanks Soren for the information. It seems the recovery procedure
described in here will effectively be applied for the first tome boot
as well.
Cheers,
Renu