From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: deepesh@india.tejasnetworks.com Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: EP8260 From: Wolfgang Denk Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 22 Jul 2003 19:32:34 +0700." <1058882554.3f1d43faafee2@pop-mail.india.tejasnetworks.com> Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:52:23 +0200 Message-Id: <20030722155228.DF415C6D82@atlas.denx.de> Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: In message <1058882554.3f1d43faafee2@pop-mail.india.tejasnetworks.com> you wrote: > > I loaded my EP8260 board with UBOOT. This was working fine. Then I loaded a First I would like to point out (like many times before) that U-Boot related questions are off-topic on a linuxppc-dev mailing list. Please post such questions to the u-boot-users list. > binary into RAM using tftp. Then tried copying the stuff to flash. When I could > not copy things into flash directly, I erased a few sectors randomly and then > copied the binary to flash. Then when I reset the board, it did not come up. One of my teachers used to say that some people only learn when it hurts really bad. I hope you understand that you should have investigates _why_ yuou could not copy your image to flash. Thi is supposed to work, and if it fails it usually means that you made something wrong. Analyzing the error and understanding _what_ you did wrong is very important for you to avoid the same error in the future. Well, and "erasing a few sectors randomly" is such a bad idea that I better keep my mouth shut. > I put back the u-boot into the flash using BDI2000. But now I am getting weird > characters on the screen. I have looked at the minicom settings-- It is 115200 > and 8N1. These were the settings with which I was working before also. What I am > not able to understand is the reason for the weird characters. Probably you overwrote more than you think. Restart from scratch: erase the _whole_ flash memory, and install _only_ U-Boot. Then power-cycle the board. Then check again. And never ever erase "random sectors" again. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtime Systems, Embedded Linux Phone: (+49)-8142-4596-87 Fax: (+49)-8142-4596-88 Email: wd@denx.de "When anyone says `theoretically,' they really mean `not really.'" - David Parnas ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/