Cubieboard 3 (Cubietruck) does not boot from SD Card.

[Heinz Rusche]

Hi, my cubieboard 3 does boot well from nand flash. I decided to make an SD-Card like it's described in the tutorial to boot from SD-Card. But the cubieboard does boot from nand-flash every time even if the sd-card is inserted... Does someone know what I'm doing wrong?
I've attached the boot log... it seems it doesn't even try to boot from the sd-card.

[Heinz Rusche]

push

[Huang Benn]

try to dd the u-boot with spl only

2013/11/17 Heinz Rusche <kloet...@gmail.com>

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[Michal Suchanek]

This is probably caused by

0) wrongly written image

1) bad contact on the SD card

2) electricity leaking form the serial port which prevents the mmc
from resetting properly

so make sure

0) you write the image correctly using dd or similar tool for windows

2) power off the board and disconnect the serial port from any other
board/PC. Try to boot form SD card again

1) the SD card is detected by the kernel you boot from nand (if it can
be booted). Try to dust off the slot contacts and/or insert a piece of
paper with the card so it gets pressed more firmly against the board.

[Heinz Rusche]

0) i've written the image exactly like it is done in the tutorial

2) tried that before too

1) i already tried inserting a piece of paper with the sd card, or using another card but it hasn't changed anything.
Which line of my log says that the kernel has detected the card? I can't find any similar lines which have to do with the sd card like i know it from other arm linux devices.
The kernel even doesn't log anything when inserting the card.
The only thing I get something from the kernel is when pulling out the card: "mmc_sd_detect(mmc0): Unable to re-detect card (-123)". But does that implicate that the card has been detected and initialized at insertion correctly? I don't think so.

a)
Also the uboot "mmcinfo" command doesn't work. It prints "No MMC device available".
Should this command work in a working environment - like yours - or can't I use this as an indication?

b)
at which stage the log would differ when booting from sd-card? After Boot1?
Shouldn't I see any messages regarding the sd-card in Boot1 logs?

[Jorge]

I'm having this problem with my newly received cubietruck, I have not copied a existing image, but I have done my own partition and formatting of the card. I have a first fat partition with script.bin  uEnv.txt  uImage from http://dl.cubieboard.org/software/a20-cubietruck/lubuntu/ct-lubuntu-card0-v1.00/desktop/bootfs-part1.tar.gz, I have dd'ed dd if=usbboot-fel/u-boot-spl.bin  of=/dev/sde  bs=1024 seek=8 ; dd if=usbboot-fel/u-boot.bin  of=/dev/sde  bs=1024 seek=32 from http://dl.cubieboard.org/software/a20-cubietruck/common/usbboot-fel.tar.gz and when booting it boots to android (and the it can mount the first partition and I can see the files, so the card works). Connecting to the serial console I can interrupt the boot and mmcinfo tells me that there is no device available:

U-Boot 2011.09-rc1-dirty (Sep 11 2013 - 17:15:10) Allwinner Technology 

CPU:   SUNXI Family

Board: SUN7I-EVB

DRAM:  2 GiB

NAND:  [NAND] set nand_good_block_ratio 912 

3200 MiB

In:    serial

Out:   serial

Err:   serial

--------fastboot partitions--------

-total partitions:11-

-name-        -start-       -size-      

bootloader  : 8000          8000        

env         : 10000         8000        

boot        : 18000         8000        

system      : 20000         100000      

data        : 120000        100000      

misc        : 220000        8000        

recovery    : 228000        10000       

cache       : 238000        a0000       

private     : 2d8000        8000        

databk      : 2e0000        80000       

UDISK       : 360000        2e0000      

-----------------------------------

bootcmd set setargs_nand

Hit any key to stop autoboot:  1 0 

sunxi#mmcinfo

No MMC device available

sunxi#mmc rescan

No MMC device available

sunxi#mmc list

No MMC device available

sunxi#mmc dev

No MMC device available

sunxi#

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[Michal Suchanek]

On 26 November 2013 13:53, Jorge <jne...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm having this problem with my newly received cubietruck, I have not copied
> a existing image, but I have done my own partition and formatting of the
> card. I have a first fat partition with script.bin uEnv.txt uImage from
> http://dl.cubieboard.org/software/a20-cubietruck/lubuntu/ct-lubuntu-card0-v1.00/desktop/bootfs-part1.tar.gz,
> I have dd'ed dd if=usbboot-fel/u-boot-spl.bin of=/dev/sde bs=1024 seek=8 ;
> dd if=usbboot-fel/u-boot.bin of=/dev/sde bs=1024 seek=32 from
> http://dl.cubieboard.org/software/a20-cubietruck/common/usbboot-fel.tar.gz
> and when booting it boots to android (and the it can mount the first
> partition and I can see the files, so the card works). Connecting to the
> serial console I can interrupt the boot and mmcinfo tells me that there is
> no device available:
>
> U-Boot 2011.09-rc1-dirty (Sep 11 2013 - 17:15:10) Allwinner Technology
>
> CPU: SUNXI Family
> Board: SUN7I-EVB
> DRAM: 2 GiB
> NAND: [NAND] set nand_good_block_ratio 912

I don't think this u-boot supports MMC.

So it's expected that you cannot see any.

HTH

Michal

[Jorge]

So in order to boot from a SD card one has to update the u-boot stored in NAND? I was hoping I could avoid touching the nand contents so I will always have a kind of boot safe environment to test things.

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[Huang Benn]

This tutorial shold work fine. you can dd the u-boot to your SD card, and it will boot from SD card then.. any problem please let me know.

2013/11/26 Jorge <jne...@gmail.com>

[Robert Ehrentraut]

i also had this Problem.
Ben helped me out.
I didn't partionate the card right, also the u-boot was wrong.
now my system boot in text mode.
now I must figure out why the gui will not run.

thanks very much ben!!!

[Heinz Rusche]

Finally I somehow managed to boot from SD card too... After the 4th time of doing the tutorial it worked like a charm... I still don't figure out what the problem was... I'm keen on finding more information about the boot process, where the card detection is happening and how it is working. Does anyone know where i can find that?

[Patrick Wood]

See http://rhombus-tech.net/allwinner_a10/a10_boot_process/