Problem booting on Beagleboard X15 Rev B1

I got two of the Beagleboard X15 Rev B1 and have not been able to boot the MicroSD TI Linux (generated by yocto) on it. The previous release with kernel 4.1 boots OK except that it is set in a low resolution, not the 1920x1080 expected resolution.

I tried the same image on three rev A3 from TI and 1 rev A2 beagleboard X15, they all work as expected.

If I replace u-boot from TI with the one from Beagleboard X15 I get a different error, log after the first log

Here is the log

U-Boot SPL 2016.05-00118-g797bc2f-dirty (Oct 13 2016 - 17:12:54)
DRA752-GP ES1.1
Trying to boot from MMC1
reading args
spl_load_image_fat_os: error reading image args, err - -1
reading u-boot.img
reading u-boot.img
reading u-boot.img
reading u-boot.img

U-Boot 2016.05-00118-g797bc2f-dirty (Oct 13 2016 - 17:12:54 -0400)

CPU : DRA752-GP ES1.1
Model: TI AM5728 BeagleBoard-X15
Board: BeagleBoard X15 REV B.10
DRAM: 2 GiB
MMC: no pinctrl for ddr50
no pinctrl for sdr25
no pinctrl for sdr12
OMAP SD/MMC: 0, OMAP SD/MMC: 1
reading uboot.env

** Unable to read “uboot.env” from mmc0:1 **
Using default environment

SCSI: SATA link 0 timeout.
AHCI 0001.0300 32 slots 1 ports 3 Gbps 0x1 impl SATA mode
flags: 64bit ncq stag pm led clo only pmp pio slum part ccc apst
scanning bus for devices…
Found 0 device(s).
Net:
Warning: ethernet@48484000 using MAC address from ROM
eth0: ethernet@48484000
Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0
switch to partitions #0, OK
mmc0 is current device
SD/MMC found on device 0
reading boot.scr
** Unable to read file boot.scr **
reading uEnv.txt
574 bytes read in 4 ms (139.6 KiB/s)
Loaded env from uEnv.txt
Importing environment from mmc0 …
switch to partitions #0, OK
mmc0 is current device
SD/MMC found on device 0
3576592 bytes read in 196 ms (17.4 MiB/s)
95697 bytes read in 59 ms (1.5 MiB/s)
Booting from mmc0 …
Kernel image @ 0x82000000 [ 0x000000 - 0x369310 ]

Flattened Device Tree blob at 88000000

Booting using the fdt blob at 0x88000000
Loading Device Tree to 8ffe5000, end 8ffff5d0 … OK

Starting kernel …

[ 0.000000] Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0
[ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset
[ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpu
[ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuacct
[ 0.000000] Linux version 4.4.19-gdb0b54cdad (michel@michel) (gcc version 5.3.1 20160113 (Linaro 6
[ 0.000000] CPU: ARMv7 Processor [412fc0f2] revision 2 (ARMv7), cr=30c5387d
[ 0.000000] CPU: PIPT / VIPT nonaliasing data cache, PIPT instruction cache
[ 0.000000] Machine model: TI AM5728 BeagleBoard-X15 rev B1
[ 0.000000] Reserved memory: created CMA memory pool at 0x0000000095800000, size 56 MiB
[ 0.000000] Reserved memory: initialized node ipu2_cma@95800000, compatible id shared-dma-pool
[ 0.000000] Reserved memory: created CMA memory pool at 0x0000000099000000, size 64 MiB
[ 0.000000] Reserved memory: initialized node dsp1_cma@99000000, compatible id shared-dma-pool
[ 0.000000] Reserved memory: created CMA memory pool at 0x000000009d000000, size 32 MiB
[ 0.000000] Reserved memory: initialized node ipu1_cma@9d000000, compatible id shared-dma-pool
[ 0.000000] Reserved memory: created CMA memory pool at 0x000000009f000000, size 8 MiB
[ 0.000000] Reserved memory: initialized node dsp2_cma@9f000000, compatible id shared-dma-pool
[ 0.000000] cma: Reserved 24 MiB at 0x00000000fe400000
[ 0.000000] Forcing write-allocate cache policy for SMP
[ 0.000000] Memory policy: Data cache writealloc
[ 0.000000] OMAP4: Map 0x00000000ffd00000 to fe600000 for dram barrier
[ 0.000000] DRA752 ES1.1
[ 0.000000] PERCPU: Embedded 11 pages/cpu @eed34000 s14848 r8192 d22016 u45056
[ 0.000000] Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 472640
[ 0.000000] Kernel command line: console=ttyO2,115200n8 root=PARTUUID=78e8c3fb-02 rw rootfstype=et
[ 0.000000] PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
[ 0.000000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
[ 0.000000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
[ 0.000000] Memory: 1680668K/1897472K available (6535K kernel code, 358K rwdata, 2444K rodata, 33)
[ 0.000000] Virtual kernel memory layout:
[ 0.000000] vector : 0xffff0000 - 0xffff1000 ( 4 kB)
[ 0.000000] fixmap : 0xffc00000 - 0xfff00000 (3072 kB)
[ 0.000000] vmalloc : 0xf0800000 - 0xff800000 ( 240 MB)
[ 0.000000] lowmem : 0xc0000000 - 0xf0000000 ( 768 MB)
[ 0.000000] pkmap : 0xbfe00000 - 0xc0000000 ( 2 MB)
[ 0.000000] modules : 0xbf000000 - 0xbfe00000 ( 14 MB)
[ 0.000000] .text : 0xc0008000 - 0xc08cd04c (8981 kB)
[ 0.000000] .init : 0xc08ce000 - 0xc0922000 ( 336 kB)
[ 0.000000] .data : 0xc0922000 - 0xc097bab0 ( 359 kB)
[ 0.000000] .bss : 0xc097d000 - 0xc09c56c0 ( 290 kB)
[ 0.000000] SLUB: HWalign=64, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=2, Nodes=1
[ 0.000000] Preemptible hierarchical RCU implementation.
[ 0.000000] Build-time adjustment of leaf fanout to 32.
[ 0.000000] NR_IRQS:16 nr_irqs:16 16
[ 0.000000] OMAP clockevent source: timer1 at 32786 Hz
[ 0.000000] Architected cp15 timer(s) running at 6.14MHz (virt).
[ 0.000000] clocksource: arch_sys_counter: mask: 0xffffffffffffff max_cycles: 0x16af5adb9, max_ids
[ 0.000004] sched_clock: 56 bits at 6MHz, resolution 162ns, wraps every 4398046511023ns
[ 0.000015] Switching to timer-based delay loop, resolution 162ns
[ 0.000323] clocksource: 32k_counter: mask: 0xffffffff max_cycles: 0xffffffff, max_idle_ns: 58327s
[ 0.000331] OMAP clocksource: 32k_counter at 32768 Hz
[ 0.000734] Console: colour dummy device 80x30
[ 0.000750] WARNING: Your ‘console=ttyO2’ has been replaced by ‘ttyS2’
[ 0.000756] This ensures that you still see kernel messages. Please
[ 0.000761] update your kernel commandline.
[ 0.000775] Calibrating delay loop (skipped), value calculated using timer frequency… 12.29 Bogo)
[ 0.000789] pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301
[ 0.000882] Mount-cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
[ 0.000892] Mountpoint-cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
[ 0.001431] Initializing cgroup subsys io
[ 0.001448] Initializing cgroup subsys memory
[ 0.001471] Initializing cgroup subsys devices
[ 0.001484] Initializing cgroup subsys freezer
[ 0.001495] Initializing cgroup subsys perf_event
[ 0.001505] Initializing cgroup subsys pids
[ 0.001530] CPU: Testing write buffer coherency: ok
[ 0.001729] /cpus/cpu@0 missing clock-frequency property
[ 0.001744] /cpus/cpu@1 missing clock-frequency property
[ 0.001754] CPU0: thread -1, cpu 0, socket 0, mpidr 80000000
[ 0.001789] Setting up static identity map for 0x800082c0 - 0x80008318
[ 0.080093] CPU1: thread -1, cpu 1, socket 0, mpidr 80000001
[ 0.080154] Brought up 2 CPUs
[ 0.080168] SMP: Total of 2 processors activated (24.59 BogoMIPS).
[ 0.080175] CPU: All CPU(s) started in SVC mode.
[ 0.080546] devtmpfs: initialized
[ 0.107533] VFP support v0.3: implementor 41 architecture 4 part 30 variant f rev 0
[ 0.108449] omap_hwmod: l3_main_2 using broken dt data from ocp
[ 0.218527] omap_hwmod: dcan1: _wait_target_disable failed
[ 0.224981] omap_hwmod: dcan2: _wait_target_disable failed
[ 0.319039] clocksource: jiffies: mask: 0xffffffff max_cycles: 0xffffffff, max_idle_ns: 191126044s
[ 0.322956] pinctrl core: initialized pinctrl subsystem
[ 0.323797] NET: Registered protocol family 16
[ 0.324701] DMA: preallocated 256 KiB pool for atomic coherent allocations
[ 0.350245] cpuidle: using governor ladder
[ 0.380275] cpuidle: using governor menu
[ 0.388751] OMAP GPIO hardware version 0.1
[ 0.395216] irq: no irq domain found for /ocp/l4@4a000000/scm@2000/pinmux@1400 !
[ 0.418568] hw-breakpoint: found 5 (+1 reserved) breakpoint and 4 watchpoint registers.
[ 0.418578] hw-breakpoint: maximum watchpoint size is 8 bytes.
[ 0.419036] omap4_sram_init:Unable to allocate sram needed to handle errata I688
[ 0.419045] omap4_sram_init:Unable to get sram pool needed to handle errata I688
[ 0.419601] OMAP DMA hardware revision 0.0
[ 0.454451] omap-dma-engine 4a056000.dma-controller: OMAP DMA engine driver
[ 0.455533] edma 43300000.edma: memcpy is disabled
[ 0.460299] edma 43300000.edma: TI EDMA DMA engine driver
[ 0.463895] omap-iommu 40d01000.mmu: 40d01000.mmu registered
[ 0.464083] omap-iommu 40d02000.mmu: 40d02000.mmu registered
[ 0.464235] omap-iommu 58882000.mmu: 58882000.mmu registered
[ 0.464390] omap-iommu 55082000.mmu: 55082000.mmu registered
[ 0.464647] omap-iommu 41501000.mmu: 41501000.mmu registered
[ 0.464821] omap-iommu 41502000.mmu: 41502000.mmu registered
[ 0.467630] palmas 0-0058: Irq flag is 0x00000008
[ 0.481972] palmas 0-0058: Muxing GPIO 2f, PWM 0, LED 0
[ 0.564044] omap_i2c 48070000.i2c: bus 0 rev0.12 at 400 kHz
[ 0.564541] omap_i2c 48060000.i2c: bus 2 rev0.12 at 400 kHz
[ 0.564733] media: Linux media interface: v0.10
[ 0.564784] Linux video capture interface: v2.00
[ 0.564824] pps_core: LinuxPPS API ver. 1 registered
[ 0.564831] pps_core: Software ver. 5.3.6 - Copyright 2005-2007 Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.>
[ 0.564856] PTP clock support registered
[ 0.564907] EDAC MC: Ver: 3.0.0
[ 0.565653] omap-mailbox 4883c000.mailbox: omap mailbox rev 0x400
[ 0.565947] omap-mailbox 4883e000.mailbox: omap mailbox rev 0x400
[ 0.566230] omap-mailbox 48840000.mailbox: omap mailbox rev 0x400
[ 0.566519] omap-mailbox 48842000.mailbox: omap mailbox rev 0x400
[ 0.566830] Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Initialized.
[ 0.567651] clocksource: Switched to clocksource arch_sys_counter
[ 0.578564] NET: Registered protocol family 2
[ 0.579056] TCP established hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
[ 0.579119] TCP bind hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
[ 0.579243] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 8192)
[ 0.579289] UDP hash table entries: 512 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
[ 0.579321] UDP-Lite hash table entries: 512 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
[ 0.579465] NET: Registered protocol family 1
[ 0.579727] RPC: Registered named UNIX socket transport module.
[ 0.579737] RPC: Registered udp transport module.
[ 0.579743] RPC: Registered tcp transport module.
[ 0.579750] RPC: Registered tcp NFSv4.1 backchannel transport module.
[ 0.580693] hw perfevents: enabled with armv7_cortex_a15 PMU driver, 7 counters available
[ 0.583101] futex hash table entries: 512 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
[ 0.590859] squashfs: version 4.0 (2009/01/31) Phillip Lougher
[ 0.591513] NFS: Registering the id_resolver key type
[ 0.591545] Key type id_resolver registered
[ 0.591553] Key type id_legacy registered
[ 0.591612] ntfs: driver 2.1.32 [Flags: R/O].
[ 0.593564] bounce: pool size: 64 pages
[ 0.593717] Block layer SCSI generic (bsg) driver version 0.4 loaded (major 248)
[ 0.593732] io scheduler noop registered
[ 0.593746] io scheduler deadline registered
[ 0.593780] io scheduler cfq registered (default)
[ 0.598654] pinctrl-single 4a003400.pinmux: 282 pins at pa fc003400 size 1128
[ 0.601625] PCI host bridge /ocp/axi@0/pcie@51000000 ranges:
[ 0.601636] No bus range found for /ocp/axi@0/pcie@51000000, using [bus 00-ff]
[ 0.601668] IO 0x20003000…0x20012fff → 0x00000000
[ 0.601689] MEM 0x20013000…0x2fffffff → 0x20013000
[ 0.631932] dra7-pcie 51000000.pcie: link is not up
[ 0.632106] dra7-pcie 51000000.pcie: PCI host bridge to bus 0000:00
[ 0.632119] pci_bus 0000:00: root bus resource [bus 00-ff]
[ 0.632129] pci_bus 0000:00: root bus resource [io 0x0000-0xffff]
[ 0.632138] pci_bus 0000:00: root bus resource [mem 0x20013000-0x2fffffff]
[ 0.632542] PCI: bus0: Fast back to back transfers disabled
[ 0.632660] PCI: bus1: Fast back to back transfers enabled
[ 0.632709] irq: no irq domain found for /ocp/axi@0/pcie@51000000/interrupt-controller !
[ 0.632741] pci 0000:00:00.0: BAR 0: assigned [mem 0x20100000-0x201fffff]
[ 0.632755] pci 0000:00:00.0: BAR 1: assigned [mem 0x20020000-0x2002ffff]
[ 0.632767] pci 0000:00:00.0: PCI bridge to [bus 01]
[ 0.632988] pcieport 0000:00:00.0: Signaling PME through PCIe PME interrupt
[ 0.693224] Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 10 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
[ 0.696629] 48020000.serial: ttyS2 at MMIO 0x48020000 (irq = 301, base_baud = 3000000) is a 8250
[ 1.649220] console [ttyS2] enabled
[ 1.653879] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
[ 1.660416] OMAP DSS rev 6.1
[ 1.664192] omapdss_dss 58000000.dss: bound 58001000.dispc (ops dispc_component_ops)
[ 1.672660] omapdss_dss 58000000.dss: bound 58040000.encoder (ops hdmi5_component_ops)
[ 1.688435] loop: module loaded
[ 1.694284] libphy: Fixed MDIO Bus: probed
[ 1.747686] davinci_mdio 48485000.mdio: davinci mdio revision 1.6
[ 1.753811] davinci_mdio 48485000.mdio: detected phy mask fffffff9
[ 1.764343] libphy: 48485000.mdio: probed
[ 1.768417] davinci_mdio 48485000.mdio: phy[1]: device 48485000.mdio:01, driver Micrel KSZ9031 GiY
[ 1.778151] davinci_mdio 48485000.mdio: phy[2]: device 48485000.mdio:02, driver Micrel KSZ9031 GiY
[ 1.788520] cpsw 48484000.ethernet: Detected MACID = 74:da:ea:08:81:32
[ 1.795778] cpsw 48484000.ethernet: cpsw: Detected MACID = 74:da:ea:08:81:33
[ 1.804262] mousedev: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
[ 1.810337] i2c /dev entries driver
[ 1.816446] gpio-fan gpio_fan: GPIO fan initialized
[ 1.822367] tmp102 0-0048: initialized
[ 1.828878] omap_hsmmc 4809c000.mmc: Got CD GPIO
[ 1.833741] omap_hsmmc 4809c000.mmc: no pinctrl state for default mode
[ 1.868126] omap_hsmmc 480b4000.mmc: no pinctrl state for default mode
[ 1.898974] ledtrig-cpu: registered to indicate activity on CPUs
[ 1.907035] davinci-mcasp 48468000.mcasp: ERRATA i868 workaround is enabled
[ 1.915188] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[ 1.920500] sit: IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
[ 1.925678] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[ 1.930403] Key type dns_resolver registered
[ 1.934773] omap_voltage_late_init: Voltage driver support not added
[ 1.941653] Adding alias for supply vdd,cpu0 → vdd,4a003b20.oppdm
[ 1.947879] Adding alias for supply vbb,cpu0 → vbb,4a003b20.oppdm
[ 1.954575] Adding alias for supply vdd,cpu0 → vdd,4a003b20.oppdm
[ 1.960829] Adding alias for supply vbb,cpu0 → vbb,4a003b20.oppdm
[ 1.969033] Power Management for TI OMAP4+ devices.
[ 1.974122] Registering SWP/SWPB emulation handler
[ 1.981036] dmm 4e000000.dmm: initialized all PAT entries
[ 1.989779] [drm] Supports vblank timestamp caching Rev 2 (21.10.2013).
[ 1.996420] [drm] No driver support for vblank timestamp query.
[ 2.270006] [drm] Enabling DMM ywrap scrolling
[ 2.290813] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 240x67
[ 2.312360] omapdrm omapdrm.0: fb0: omapdrm frame buffer device
[ 2.348020] [drm] Initialized omapdrm 1.0.0 20110917 on minor 0
[ 2.354640] hctosys: unable to open rtc device (rtc0)
[ 2.371495] vdd_3v3: disabling
[ 2.374570] aic_dvdd_fixed: disabling
[ 2.378487] ldousb: disabling
[ 2.381760] pbias_mmc_omap5: disabling
[ 2.385724] ALSA device list:
[ 2.388723] No soundcards found.
[ 2.393055] Waiting for root device PARTUUID=78e8c3fb-02…

Log with beagleboard x15 u-boot

U-Boot SPL 2016.05-00541-gd74bd0c-dirty (Oct 20 2016 - 12:21:57)
DRA752-GP ES1.1
Trying to boot from MMC1
Expected Linux image is not found. Trying to start U-boot

U-Boot 2016.05-00541-gd74bd0c-dirty (Oct 20 2016 - 12:21:57 -0400)

CPU : DRA752-GP ES1.1
Board: BeagleBoard X15 REV B.10
I2C: ready
DRAM: 2 GiB
MMC: OMAP SD/MMC: 0, OMAP SD/MMC: 1

** Unable to use mmc 0:1 for loading the env **
Using default environment

SCSI: SATA link 0 timeout.
AHCI 0001.0300 32 slots 1 ports 3 Gbps 0x1 impl SATA mode
flags: 64bit ncq stag pm led clo only pmp pio slum part ccc apst
scanning bus for devices…
Found 0 device(s).
Net: not set. Validating first E-fuse MAC
cpsw
Press SPACE to abort autoboot in 2 seconds
usb_boot is currently disabled
scsi_boot is currently disabled
switch to partitions #0, OK
mmc0 is current device
Scanning mmc device 0
Checking for: /uEnv.txt …
Checking for: /boot/uEnv.txt …
** Invalid partition 2 **
** Invalid partition 3 **
** Invalid partition 4 **
** Invalid partition 5 **
** Invalid partition 6 **
** Invalid partition 7 **
switch to partitions #0, OK
mmc1(part 0) is current device

The rest would be the boot on debian. I use the boards for a demo before I get final hardware, I do not want to use debian. My demo requires good weston support with the GPU which is not available with Debian.
I only have on partition one ext4 partition on the disk, not 7

Michel

This isn't a u-boot issue.

The problem, the kernel isn't finding:

[ 2.393055] Waiting for root device PARTUUID=78e8c3fb-02...

For debian, i had no luck finding the actual breakage, as an early fix
broke my am335'x, so i threw out the UUID/PARTUUID, by back-porting
this patch to make sure eMMC always = 1 and microSD = 0..

https://github.com/RobertCNelson/ti-linux-kernel-dev/blob/ti-linux-4.4.y/patches/x15/fixes/0004-mmc-block-Use-the-mmc-host-device-index-as-the-mmcbl.patch

commit: [x15: uuid is failing on eMMC, so we need eMMC=mmc1, microSD=mmc0]

Then patch u-boot pass /dev/mmcblk1 or /dev/mmcblk0

Regards,

I tried your kernel and patch and got this, for some weird reason it doesn’t recognize the partitioning. It is 1 FAT partition as TI wants and 1 ext4 partition. I have MLO and u-boot.img on the FAT partition.
The kernel is the latest TI Kernel that is used with their SDK. After it fails finding the partition it boots on debian. That works the same way with or without that patch.
With the u-boot from TI, without the your u-boot patch I get the message as stated in my other message. Using the 2015 u-boot it worked fine except that I could not get it to the correct HD resolution. If I create a link to force it to use the B1 tree I get a similar error as in my other message.

I didn’t realized that the B1 version was so messed up, I would have tried to get a couple of rev 2 or rev 3 instead. I had no such issue with Rev 2 and Rev 3.
I am running out of things to try to get the B1 board working with TI EVM SDK.

Would that help to get it working on the micro SD card if I wiped out the Debian installation? Could I expect the TI SDK to work on the emmc?

scsi_boot is currently disabled
switch to partitions #0, OK
mmc0 is current device
Scanning mmc device 0
Checking for: /uEnv.txt …
reading /uEnv.txt
574 bytes read in 4 ms (139.6 KiB/s)
Loaded environment from /uEnv.txt
Checking if uenvcmd is set …
Checking for: /boot/uEnv.txt …
** Invalid partition 3 **
** Invalid partition 4 **
** Invalid partition 5 **
** Invalid partition 6 **
** Invalid partition 7 **
switch to partitions #0, OK
mmc1(part 0) is current device
Scanning mmc device 1
Checking for: /uEnv.txt …
Checking for: /boot/uEnv.txt …
357 bytes read in 5 ms (69.3 KiB/s)
Loaded environment from /boot/uEnv.txt
Checking if uname_r is set in /boot/uEnv.txt …
debug: [uname_r=4.4.15-ti-r36] …
loading /boot/vmlinuz-4.4.15-ti-r36 …
7781096 bytes read in 393 ms (18.9 MiB/s)
loading /boot/dtbs/4.4.15-ti-r36/am57xx-beagle-x15-revb1.dtb …
161540 bytes read in 36 ms (4.3 MiB/s)
loading /boot/initrd.img-4.4.15-ti-r36 …
4790298 bytes read in 245 ms (18.6 MiB/s)
debug: [console=ttyO2,115200n8 root=/dev/mmcblk1p1 ro rootfstype=ext4 rootwait coherent_pool=1M quiet].
debug: [bootz 0x82000000 0x88080000:49181a 0x88000000] …
Kernel image @ 0x82000000 [ 0x000000 - 0x76bae8 ]

Flattened Device Tree blob at 88000000

Booting using the fdt blob at 0x88000000
Loading Ramdisk to 8fb6e000, end 8ffff81a … OK
Loading Device Tree to 8fb43000, end 8fb6d703 … OK

Starting kernel …

I tried your kernel and patch and got this, for some weird reason it doesn't
recognize the partitioning. It is 1 FAT partition as TI wants and 1 ext4
partition. I have MLO and u-boot.img on the FAT partition.

We don't ship images like that anymore, end-users like to delete
MLO/u-boot.img and then wonder why it doesn't boot.. We've also moved
beyond having a separate fat partition, it's a waste of space..

The kernel is the latest TI Kernel that is used with their SDK. After it
fails finding the partition it boots on debian. That works the same way with
or without that patch.
With the u-boot from TI, without the your u-boot patch I get the message as
stated in my other message. Using the 2015 u-boot it worked fine except that
I could not get it to the correct HD resolution. If I create a link to force
it to use the B1 tree I get a similar error as in my other message.

I didn't realized that the B1 version was so messed up, I would have tried
to get a couple of rev 2 or rev 3 instead. I had no such issue with Rev 2
and Rev 3.

"messed up" = it's new and the developers behind the ti SDK haven't
had time to fix it.. I've fixed it for us: bb.org/debian...

I am running out of things to try to get the B1 board working with TI EVM
SDK.

ti sdk help is available here:

https://e2e.ti.com/

Would that help to get it working on the micro SD card if I wiped out the
Debian installation? Could I expect the TI SDK to work on the emmc?

Checking for: /uEnv.txt ...
Checking for: /boot/uEnv.txt ...
357 bytes read in 5 ms (69.3 KiB/s)
Loaded environment from /boot/uEnv.txt
Checking if uname_r is set in /boot/uEnv.txt ...
debug: [uname_r=4.4.15-ti-r36] ...
loading /boot/vmlinuz-4.4.15-ti-r36 ...
7781096 bytes read in 393 ms (18.9 MiB/s)
loading /boot/dtbs/4.4.15-ti-r36/am57xx-beagle-x15-revb1.dtb ...

Oh that was a while ago, you should give a try:

https://rcn-ee.net/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2016-10-23/lxqt-4gb/bbx15-debian-8.6-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2016-10-23-4gb.img.xz

Regards,