X-Loader EEC Failed - what to do?

It seems that I destroyed the X-loader in my Beagle :frowning:
I get an EEC Failed, page 0x00080100 and som cryptic bytes ...

Do I have a chance to recover my Beagle? How to do this (with simple methods if available)?

Arno Steffen wrote:

It seems that I destroyed the X-loader in my Beagle :frowning:
I get an EEC Failed, page 0x00080100 and som cryptic bytes ...

That address is part of u-boot, not x-loader. What is the exact error
message you get? Did you do anything that caused this problem, or did
it show up out of the blue?

Do I have a chance to recover my Beagle? How to do this (with simple methods
if available)?

There's usually some way or other it can be rescued.

This is also an intermittent problem with the TI xload binaries, the
ones built from sakomans tree don't seem to have this problem.

regards,

Koen

The output on terminal is exactly:

Texas Instruments X-Loader 1.41
EEC Failed, page 0x00080100
c c e8 80 0 0 a0 ....

Reson was that I (obvoiusly wrong) wrote to NAND on beagle to install
the u-boot and kernel there instead of having it on MMC.

Maybe you used the wrong ECC setting when you flashed it. Try again,
and make sure you give the command "nand ecc sw" before writing u-boot.
If you already did that, maybe it will just work if you try again...

The reason why I am so concerned is (I forget to mentions :frowning: )
- I don't get any prompt to write in. It crashes after giving out that
line ... with the hex bytes
So I don't have any access to the device right now.

Prepare an SD card with MLO and u-boot as described on some wiki page,
and start the board with the user button pressed. That should boot
from the card instead of flash, and let you re-flash properly.

This is the wiki page to use:

- Prepare the SD Card for use using these instructions:
http://code.google.com/p/beagleboard/wiki/LinuxBootDiskFormat
- Go to: http://code.google.com/p/beagleboard/wiki/BeagleNANDFlashing
- In the second section, there are links to the various files you will
need. Note that it says to save them "AS" and it gives you the save
file name on the SD card.
- Important: Copy the MLO onto the SD card first.
- Then x-load.bin.ift
- Then u-boot.bin
- Then flash-uboot.bin
- Boot up (by holding the user button down) on the SD Card.
- Rewrite your on-board NAND using the Flashing Commands

Then you should be ok again.

Best regards,
Geof

Thanks, finally I got it.