Re: booting Beaglebone Black

Hi,

I had difficulties with be BB Black a few months ago.

Please look in this mailing list at my post of 25-Apr-2024,
subject: "Can't boot 10 images on BeagleBone Black".

Follow that thread, you will be able to boot, I was.

bye

Nicola





On Mon-24-Jun-2024 00:45, Brook Milligan wrote:
> As far as I can tell, NetBSD currently does not boot on the Beaglebone Black.  Specifically, efiboot is loaded but then resets (see the console log below).
>
> If anyone can help me, I am happy to try to test fixes to efiboot, but this is currently outside my comfort zone.
>
> In the meantime, I suggest the attached modification to /boot/boot.cmd (and of course /boot/boot.scr which is made from it).  The intent is to detect this board and boot netbsd.ub directly instead of using efiboot.
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> Comments welcome, especially ways to make efiboot work with the BBB.
>
> Thanks a lot.
>
> Cheers,
> Brook
>
>
> U-Boot 2019.04-00002-g31a8ae0206 (May 13 2020 - 09:26:17 -0500), Build: jenkins-github_Bootloader-Builder-139
>
> CPU  : AM335X-GP rev 2.1
> I2C:   ready
> DRAM:  512 MiB
> No match for driver 'omap_hsmmc'
> No match for driver 'omap_hsmmc'
> Some drivers were not found
> Reset Source: Power-on reset has occurred.
> RTC 32KCLK Source: External.
> MMC:   OMAP SD/MMC: 0, OMAP SD/MMC: 1
> Loading Environment from EXT4...
> ** Unable to use mmc 0:1 for loading the env **
> Board: BeagleBone Black
> <ethaddr> not set. Validating first E-fuse MAC
> BeagleBone Black:
> BeagleBone: cape eeprom: i2c_probe: 0x54:
> BeagleBone: cape eeprom: i2c_probe: 0x55:
> BeagleBone: cape eeprom: i2c_probe: 0x56:
> BeagleBone: cape eeprom: i2c_probe: 0x57:
> Net:   eth0: MII MODE
> cpsw, usb_ether
> Press SPACE to abort autoboot in 0 seconds
> board_name=[A335BNLT] ...
> board_rev=[00C0] ...
> switch to partitions #0, OK
> mmc0 is current device
> SD/MMC found on device 0
> switch to partitions #0, OK
> mmc0 is current device
> Scanning mmc 0:1...
> Found U-Boot script /boot.scr
> 201 bytes read in 3 ms (65.4 KiB/s)
> ## Executing script at 80000000
> switch to partitions #0, OK
> mmc0 is current device
> Scanning mmc 0:1...
> 95747 bytes read in 42 ms (2.2 MiB/s)
> Found EFI removable media binary efi/boot/bootarm.efi
> 78Scanning disks on usb...
> Disk usb0 not ready
> Disk usb1 not ready
> Disk usb2 not ready
> Disk usb3 not ready
> Scanning disks on mmc...
> MMC Device 2 not found
> MMC Device 3 not found
> Found 5 disks
> BootOrder not defined
> 171568 bytes read in 22 ms (7.4 MiB/s)
> ## Starting EFI application at 82000000 ...
>
>    \\-__,------,___.
>     \\        __,---`  NetBSD/evbarm efiboot (arm)
>      \\       `---,_.  Revision 2.13 (Thu Mar 28 08:33:33 UTC 2024)
>       \\-,_____,.---`
>        \\
>         \\
>          \\
>
> Press return to boot now, any other key for boot prompt
> booting netbsd - starting in 5 seconds. 4 seconds. 3 seconds. 2 seconds. 1 seconds. 0 seconds.
> 7830420+2499680+1399712 [457491+548512+596646]=0xcbfb9c
> data abort
> pc : [<9ff5a188>]   lr : [<9ff5a1bd>]
> reloc pc : [<80801188>]   lr : [<808011bd>]
> sp : 9df371a4  ip : 1f759000 fp : 00000000
> r10: 9ff5b000  r9 : 9df38eb8 r8 : 00000000
> r7 : 9ff5a408  r6 : 9ff5a3bc r5 : 000000ad  r4 : 00048408
> r3 : 00000000  r2 : 00000050 r1 : 9ff5a3b8  r0 : abb1aaad
> Flags: NzCv  IRQs off  FIQs on  Mode SVC_32
> Code: 2010ea83 bdf0d1f5 5b04f856 b2c54068 (5025f854)
> UEFI image [0x9cf05000:0x9cf2d85f] '/VenHw(e61d73b9-a384-4acc-aeab-82e828f3628b)/USB(0x6,0x0)/HD(1,0x01,0,0x2800000000000,0x0)/efi\boot\bootarm.efi'
> Resetting CPU ...
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> resetting …
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