This sounds like the old original Embest board, the Clone. It is based on an older revision of the board, maybe A5. I can't remember. I don't think they ever built any Rev B boards. Supposedly the next version is Rev B based which would be AM3358.
Gerald On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 8:46 PM, <chris.j.d...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Robert, > > I'm not expecting any help/support from you on this, but here is some > additional info you may find interesting. :-) > > a) I haven't tried contacting Seeed about this. I did look around for a > contact at Embest and I found a forum ( > http://www.embest-tech.cn/community/forum.php) and a way to file a > support ticket (http://www.embest-tech.com/ticket/index.php). The forum > is all Chinese. I spent some time looking at google-translated posts there > hoping to find the magic fix, without luck. I suppose the next step will > be to file a support ticket about it. > > b) The Embest BBB I received has the AM3359. I noticed that the element > 14 website says their "Embest BBB" has the AM3358. This may not be > relevant to my Ubuntu boot issue, but it seemed interesting. > > c) When I boot the Embest BBB and watch the console output, it ends like > this: > > Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0 > gpio: pin 53 (gpio 53) value is 1 > mmc0 is current device > micro SD card found > mmc0 is current device > gpio: pin 54 (gpio 54) value is 1 > SD/MMC found on device 0 > reading uEnv.txt > 1204 bytes read in 3 ms (391.6 KiB/s) > Loaded environment from uEnv.txt > Importing environment from mmc ... > Running uenvcmd ... > reading zImage > 3669712 bytes read in 420 ms (8.3 MiB/s) > reading initrd.img > 3005004 bytes read in 345 ms (8.3 MiB/s) > reading /dtbs/am335x-boneblack.dtb > 24884 bytes read in 9 ms (2.6 MiB/s) > Wrong Ramdisk Image Format > Ramdisk image is corrupt or invalid > gpio: pin 55 (gpio 55) value is 1 > ** File not found /boot/uImage ** > > But I can literally pop that same SD card out and put it in my BBB model > A6 and it boots fine. I googled around for the error messages near the > end, and got a few hits, but nothing that made sense to me as a workaround > or explanation of why it fails on the Embest BBB. > > d) I did some poking around in U-Boot. The version says this: > > U-Boot 2013.04-rc1-14237-g90639fe-dirty (Apr 13 2013 - 13:57:11) > arm-angstrom-linux-gnueabi-gcc (Linaro GCC 4.7-2013.02-01) 4.7.3 20130205 > (prerelease) > GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.22 > > Whereas the BBB A6 shows this for version: > > U-Boot 2013.04-dirty (Jul 10 2013 - 14:02:53) > arm-angstrom-linux-gnueabi-gcc (Linaro GCC 4.7-2013.02-01) 4.7.3 20130205 > (prerelease) > GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.22 > > So there is a difference on the first line, but otherwise the versions are > the same. Also, both boards return the same thing for 'mmcinfo'. > > > > On Thursday, April 3, 2014 1:04:04 PM UTC-7, RobertCNelson wrote: >> >> On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 2:37 PM, <chris....@gmail.com> wrote: >> > I got an Embest BBB from Seeed this week >> > (http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/BeagleBone-Black-Embest-p-1736.html<http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.seeedstudio.com%2Fdepot%2FBeagleBone-Black-Embest-p-1736.html&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNHoW8Ws3Oo9rfYgLPJEg5Sv_XJJMw>). >> >> > >> > So far, I'm disappointed. It runs Angstrom from the eMMC, but it won't >> run >> > Ubuntu from a microSD card. I tried the latest Ubuntu 13.10 and 14.04 >> > images from here: http://elinux.org/BeagleBoardUbuntu . I verified >> they >> > both worked fine on a standard BBB (A6) and they both do not boot on >> the >> > Embest BBB. I'm not sure if it's a hardware issue, or a u-boot config >> > issue, or something else. >> >> Awesome, I'm disappointed too! Guess i better update all my wiki >> pages, and say only official "CircuitCo" made boards are supported. >> >> So, "SeeedStudio/Embest" it's now your move to fix this issue, my >> email/contact info is easily available. >> >> Regards, >> >> -- >> Robert Nelson >> http://www.rcn-ee.com/ >> > -- > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "BeagleBoard" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
