[U-Boot-Users] sam9263ek not booting uboot dataflash

[Ulf Samuelsson <ulf.samuelsson@atmel.com>]

>> > Once I start using sam7 util, the bootstrap code has not been executed
>> > which means the SDRAM has not been initialized. I'll have to added the
>> > lowlevel init to do that, which I might try if nothing else works.
>> >
>> >
>> You don't understand:
>>
>> - flash all arm9load & u-boot
>> - loady <address> u-boot-mod
>> - go <address>
> 
> I'm tying this method. I had to go to kermit because I never had
> suscess loading serially with minicom.  I had problems with kermit in
> the past but couldn't remember what it was... until now.  I've always
> had fatal errors after a few bytes are transmitted. I get some error,
> then it tries to resend but had too many errors. I'm not really sure
> how to get past this as I'm configured the serial line accordingly.
> Is this a common "user error" problem with ckermit? I've double
> checked my config option with uboot docs.
> 

I have used "minicom" a lot when downloading to the AT91RM9200,
but I use the special downloading program which I found somewhere
and included in the U-Boot-1.1.2 found on buildroot.uclibc.org.

Did you try programming from Windows using SAM-BA?


Best Regards
Ulf Samuelsson