Re: Can't boot 10 images in BeagleBone Black

On Sat-27-Apr-2024 09:30, Nicola Mingotti wrote:
> fantastic ! i will try as soon as i can sit at the office
> many thanks Lloyd
> 
> nicola
> 
> On Fri, Apr 26, 2024, 10:58 PM Lloyd Parkes 
> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> 
> wrote:
> 
>     On Sat, 2024-04-27 at 08:05 +1200, Lloyd Parkes wrote:
>      > On Fri, 2024-04-26 at 18:25 +0200, Dr. Nicola Mingotti wrote:
>      > >
>      > > Btw, it must be possible to fix this.
>      >
>      > Oh yes. I'm sure it is. I've built a new version of U-Boot and I'll
>      > test it as soon as I've had breakfast.
> 
>     I got it to work with U-Boot 2022.04 from pkgsrc.
> 
>     You can update U-Boot by installing the sysutils/u-boot-beagleboneblack
>     package on NetBSD 10 and the running "installboot -m evbarm -o
>     board=ti,am335x-bone-black NetBSD-HEAD-earmv7hf-202404241210Z-bone-
>     black.img". Note that's the uncompressed image file.
> 
>     You can build the sysutils/u-boot-beagleboneblack package yourself, but
>     it does take a while because it needs to build its own GCC cross
>     compiler. I recommend just installing a NetBSD 10 binary package from
>     pkgsrc.org <http://pkgsrc.org>.
> 
>     You can also use dd to patch the MLO and u-boot.img files into the
>     image, but U-Boot is much bigger than it used to be and so the block
>     counts given in the linked stackoverflow posting are wildly wrong. The
>     offsets appear to be correct though.
> 
>     Ngā-mihi,
>     Lloyd
> 
>     https://stackoverflow.com/questions/60873038/how-to-write-new-mlo-and-u-boot-img-to-an-sd-card-without-erasing-the-os <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/60873038/how-to-write-new-mlo-and-u-boot-img-to-an-sd-card-without-erasing-the-os>
>     https://www.ti.com/lit/ug/spruh73q/spruh73q.pdf
>     <https://www.ti.com/lit/ug/spruh73q/spruh73q.pdf>
> 

hi again,

from the office, i confirm Lloyd procedure worked
and NetBSD booted in my BBBlack.

bye
Nicola