Cannot boot pandaboard

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Timothy Wong

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Jan 21, 2012, 1:50:20 PM1/21/12
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I'm new to Pandaboard and Ubuntu. I got the Pandaboard ES two days ago
and I've problem booting it up.
I've connected everything and when I turn the power on, nothing come
up from the HDMI nor anything in the hyerterminal from the USB to
serial com. I saw only one green LED light on all the time and no
blinking. I saw on various tutorial video that the LED is supposed to
be blinking while the board boot up.
I've tried various builds including the validation image and it behave
the same, do you think I have a board problem or I don't know how to
flash the SD card. I'm kind of lot, various sites give different
instruction in how to prepare for the SD card.

I
Tim

Richard

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Jan 22, 2012, 1:01:11 PM1/22/12
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Do you have another SD card to try? Over the years I have had issues
with other systems with an SD card that for some reason does not work.

Is the monitor / TV you using full HD? I have one HD tv that although
can accept 1080p (it's not a 1080p TV) but does not work with the
panda board. I also have a DVI 1080p HD monitor that does not work
with input from the HDMI port (kind of obvious I guess) The only TV
that works with the HDMI port on the panda is my new TV in the front
room that is 1080p. Interestingly with this tv, it will also work
connected to the DVI port.

Just to note, I don't have the ES version.

What OS are you using on your PC? I'm using Ubuntu, minicom by default
seems to like running as root which is annoying, to get round this I
added a udev rule to set all com ports to my user, not that I should
need to. Until I did this I got no output from the com port.

I would recommend using the Ubuntu 11.10 build on the Panda board,
seems to work a lot better and runs at 1080p.

Joshi, Vikas

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Jan 22, 2012, 11:11:38 PM1/22/12
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Let's start with:
1. steps you used for flashing image on SD?
2. where did you get the image from?
3. info about the SD you are using?
4. Your serial terminal settings?

Vikas

Subash Patel

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Jan 23, 2012, 1:28:16 AM1/23/12
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Hi Timothy,

I would suggest to try to use simple step provided by the Linaro folks.
I used exactly same steps to boot Pandaboard recently, and things come
up pretty quickly. If it still doesnt work, as someone suggested here,
try replacing your SD card initially.

Note: I am suggesting to try a simple filesystem(linaro-nano) initially.

*Linaro-TI:*
https://wiki.linaro.org/Resources/HowTo/L-M-C (tools installation)
https://wiki.linaro.org/Boards/Panda (panda specific step)

*Filesystem:*
http://snapshots.linaro.org/11.05-daily/linaro-ubuntu-desktop/latest/0/images/tar/

OR
http://snapshots.linaro.org/11.05-daily/linaro-nano/latest/0/images/tar/

*Hardware-pack(MLO, uboot, uImage):*
http://snapshots.linaro.org/11.05-daily/linaro-hwpacks/lt-panda/latest/0/images/hwpack/

Just follow the steps provided in the Linaro-TI pages, along with a
filesystem and hardware pack, and you should have a working setup up and
running in minutes. I can think this as easiest way for you to evaluate
your board before you raise a RMA for return.

Regards,
Subash

Jeffrey Longo

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Jan 22, 2012, 11:11:30 AM1/22/12
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For what its worth, I'm in the same position. I have a pandaboard ES, and I finally got Android ICS built (I have a mac, and there was a bunch of undocumented things you had to do to get it built, like installing an ancient version of XCode), but I haven't been able to get it installed. I'm also pretty confused by the various instructions out there... i don't know what's applicable to the old "pandroid" vs ICS. All I get when I boot the thing is a sold LED and my display never turns on.

So, help here would help multiple folks :-)

Thanks!

Jeff Longo

Wan Leung Wong

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Jan 22, 2012, 11:12:16 AM1/22/12
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Hi Tim,

I got the same problem here.
It may be the MLO is too old in those pre-built images and not work on ES.

You could try to use the testing imgae in
http://pandaboard.org/content/resources/troubleshooting
to check your board is work or not.

dd the image into your SD card and boot. You could see the booting
message from the serial port.

So that I had built my own MLO and u-boot.bin to boot the board up.

regards,
wanleung

Timothy Wong

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Jan 23, 2012, 5:49:27 PM1/23/12
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I tried to following the instruction from https://wiki.linaro.org/Resources/HowTo/L-M-C and I got the following error

tmhw1@tim-netbook:/$ bzr branch lp:linaro-image-tools
You have not informed bzr of your Launchpad ID, and you must do this to
write to Launchpad or access private data.  See "bzr help launchpad-login".
bzr: ERROR: Permission denied: "/linaro-image-tools/": [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/linaro-image-tools/'

I also tried to get the image from the link you send but they are empty
Can you get me more specific instruction?



From: Subash Patel <suba...@gmail.com>
To: Timothy Wong <tm...@yahoo.com>
Cc: panda...@googlegroups.com
Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2012 10:28 PM
Subject: Re: [pandaboard] Cannot boot pandaboard

Timothy Wong

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Jan 23, 2012, 9:46:10 PM1/23/12
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I got a little bit further now. I'm using the linaro 11.12 image and
I'm now able to get something from the serial port and but it get into
some error and get into an endless loop with the following message

[ 496.965759] omapdss DISPC error: timeout waiting for EVSYNC
[ 497.052154] in hpd work 2, state=1
[ 497.711029] edid[000] = 00 ff ff ff ff ff ff 00 04 72 9a 00 da c9
91 90
[ 497.735626] edid[010] = 09 13 01 03 80 33 1d 78 ea 60 85 a6 56 4a
9c 25
[ 497.746368] edid[020] = 12 50 54 b3 0c 00 81 80 71 4f 81 00 95 00
a9 40
[ 497.762725] edid[030] = 01 01 01 01 01 01 02 3a 80 18 71 38 2d 40
58 2c
[ 497.765716] edid[040] = 45 00 fe 1f 11 00 00 1a 00 00 00 fc 00 58
32 33
[ 497.794128] edid[050] = 33 48 0a 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 00 00 00 fd
00 38
[ 497.796966] edid[060] = 4c 1f 53 12 00 0a 20 20 20 20 20 20 00 00
00 ff
[ 497.830139] edid[070] = 00 4c 46 4d 30 43 30 32 33 34 30 34 30 0a
01 18
[ 497.837310] edid[080] = 02 03 22 f2 23 09 7f 07 4e 01 02 03 84 05
06 07
[ 497.848968] edid[090] = 10 11 12 15 93 1f 14 83 01 00 00 66 03 0c
00 10
[ 497.851654] edid[0a0] = 00 10 8c 0a d0 8a 20 e0 2d 10 10 3e 96 00
fe 1f
[ 497.872131] edid[0b0] = 11 00 00 18 01 1d 00 72 51 d0 1e 20 6e 28
55 00
[ 497.879364] edid[0c0] = fe 1f 11 00 00 1e 01 1d 80 18 71 1c 16 20
58 2c
[ 497.886596] edid[0d0] = 25 00 fe 1f 11 00 00 9e 01 1d 00 bc 52 d0
1e 20
[ 497.893737] edid[0e0] = b8 28 55 40 fe 1f 11 00 00 1e 01 1d 80 d0
72 1c
[ 497.939300] edid[0f0] = 16 20 34 2c 25 00 fe 1f 11 00 00 9e 00 00
00 3b
[ 497.958923] edid[100] = 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00
[ 497.966278] edid[110] = 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00
[ 497.973419] edid[120] = 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00
[ 497.980651] edid[130] = 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00
[ 498.033081] edid[140] = 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00
[ 498.045501] edid[150] = 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00
[ 498.052825] edid[160] = 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00
[ 498.059997] edid[170] = 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00
[ 498.067108] edid[180] = 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00
[ 498.114685] edid[190] = 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00
[ 498.121917] edid[1a0] = 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00
[ 498.139434] edid[1b0] = 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00
[ 498.146820] edid[1c0] = 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00
[ 498.153991] edid[1d0] = 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00
[ 498.210540] edid[1e0] = 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00
[ 498.217987] edid[1f0] = 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00
[ 498.225677] panel size 51 by 29
[ 502.809051] request_suspend_state: wakeup (0->0) at 502804260256
(1970-01-02
00:08:03.299621582 UTC)
[ 503.250915] acc_open
[ 503.255798] acc_release
[ 505.064300] binder: release 8085:8085 transaction 59592 in, still
active
[ 505.071960] binder: send failed reply for transaction 59592 to
8180:8180
[ 505.080200] binder: release 8085:8096 transaction 59589 in, still
active
[ 505.087402] binder: send failed reply for transaction 59589 to
8225:8225
[ 505.095214] binder: send failed reply for transaction 59596 to
8207:8207
[ 505.107360] binder: send failed reply for transaction 59599 to
8167:8167
[ 505.114624] binder: send failed reply for transaction 59608 to
8152:8152
[ 505.121887] binder: send failed reply for transaction 59611 to
8167:8239
[ 505.129119] binder: send failed reply for transaction 59618 to
8193:8193
[ 505.137786] binder: 8180:8180 transaction failed 29189, size 68-0
[ 505.151428] binder: 8167:8167 transaction failed 29189, size 172-4
[ 505.178131] binder: 8207:8207 transaction failed 29189, size 64-0
[ 505.192474] binder: 8180:8180 transaction failed 29189, size 2820-4
[ 505.200408] binder: 8193:8193 transaction failed 29189, size 2788-4
[ 505.257904] alarm_release: clear alarm, pending 0
[ 505.265289] alarm_release: clear alarm, pending 0
[ 505.818359] request_suspend_state: wakeup (0->0) at 505813568119
(1970-01-02
00:08:06.309692384 UTC)
[ 505.844512] init: untracked pid 8069 exited
[ 505.861511] init: untracked pid 8070 exited
[ 505.866088] init: untracked pid 8180 exited
[ 505.867279] init: untracked pid 8225 exited
[ 511.000091] hpd 0
[ 511.029602] in hpd work 0, state=1
[ 511.040924] omapdss HDMI: Enter hdmi_display_disable
[ 511.102630] hdmi: clearing EDID info
[ 513.007904] hpd 1
[ 513.051910] in hpd work 1, state=0
[ 513.055816] omapdss HDMI: ENTER hdmi_display_enable
[ 513.150665] request_suspend_state: wakeup (0->0) at 513145812991
(1970-01-02
00:08:13.641937256 UTC)
[ 513.168975] omapdss DISPC error: timeout waiting for EVSYNC

Any idea. It linaro 12.10 supporting the panda ES board?

Tim


On Jan 22, 8:12 am, Wan Leung Wong <wanleungw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Tim,
>
> I got the same problem here.
> It may be the MLO is too old in those pre-built images and not work on ES.
>
> You could try to use the testing imgae inhttp://pandaboard.org/content/resources/troubleshooting

Joshi, Vikas

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Jan 24, 2012, 5:12:26 AM1/24/12
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You just need to set your lauchpad login once so that bzr works for you. Do as what it says in the error message: i.e bzr help lauchpad-login and follow steps.

 

Vikas

Subash Patel

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Jan 24, 2012, 6:49:28 AM1/24/12
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On 01/24/2012 04:19 AM, Timothy Wong wrote:
> I tried to following the instruction from
> https://wiki.linaro.org/Resources/HowTo/L-M-C and I got the following error
>
> tmhw1@tim-netbook:/$ bzr branch lp:linaro-image-tools
> You have not informed bzr of your Launchpad ID, and you must do this to
> write to Launchpad or access private data. See "bzr help launchpad-login".
> bzr: ERROR: Permission denied: "/linaro-image-tools/": [Errno 13]
> Permission denied: '/linaro-image-tools/'
>
> I also tried to get the image from the link you send but they are empty
>
> *Filesystem:*
> http://snapshots.linaro.org/11.05-daily/linaro-ubuntu-desktop/latest/0/images/tar/
> OR
> http://snapshots.linaro.org/11.05-daily/linaro-nano/latest/0/images/tar/
>
> *Hardware-pack(MLO, uboot, uImage):*
> http://snapshots.linaro.org/11.05-daily/linaro-hwpacks/lt-panda/latest/0/images/hwpack/
>
> Can you get me more specific instruction?

I am sorry. These links are now empty. It looks now Linaro have moved
out into new address. Below I find the required tar balls for the steps
I mentioned of below.

http://releases.linaro.org/11.12/ubuntu/oneiric-images/nano/

Regards,
Subash

>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* Subash Patel <suba...@gmail.com>
> *To:* Timothy Wong <tm...@yahoo.com>
> *Cc:* panda...@googlegroups.com
> *Sent:* Sunday, January 22, 2012 10:28 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [pandaboard] Cannot boot pandaboard

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