Okay, thanks very much!  I'll give that a try.

On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 3:23 AM, liyaoshi <liyao...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Sorry , I have made a mistake .
>
> On omap3 board ,you should use pserial to download from serial
> And on am335x / dm8148 board. x-modem is enough.and MLO is for boot from
> serial
>
> So , please try to use teraterm , and upload from
> file->transfer->xmodem->send.
> Then power on the beaglebone board .
>
>
> 2014-07-21 16:17 GMT+08:00 liyaoshi <liyao...@gmail.com>:
>
> If I remember correctly , You should load x-loader.bin  NOT MLO
>> While the different between MLO and x-loader.bin is MLO has 8 bytes head
>> , the first 4 bytes is dest and the second 4 bytes is length .
>> This is for boot from NAND /eMMC , and when download from serial . the
>> boot rom will download to fixed address and limit length .
>>
>>
>>
>> 2014-07-21 12:04 GMT+08:00 John Syn <john3...@gmail.com>:
>>
>>
>>>  From: Dallas Clement <dallas.a.clem...@gmail.com>
>>> Reply-To: "beagleboard@googlegroups.com" <beagleboard@googlegroups.com>
>>> Date: Sunday, July 20, 2014 at 9:19 AM
>>> To: "beagleboard@googlegroups.com" <beagleboard@googlegroups.com>
>>> Subject: Re: [beagleboard] Want to serial boot my BBB
>>>
>>> One other data point.  If I don't press and hold the boot switch when
>>> power is applied and instead wait a few seconds after applying power and
>>> then press the boot switch, the pserial command is able to detect the ASIC
>>> ID and download the x-loan.bin.
>>>
>>> You should be loading MLO, not x-load.bin. I also haven’t tried this
>>> myself, but loading via serial shouldn’t be any different from loading from
>>> tftp. The load addresses should be identical.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> John
>>>
>>>
>>> $ sudo ./pserial -p /dev/ttyUSB0 -f x-load.bin
>>> Waiting For Device ASIC ID: Press Ctrl+C to stop
>>> ASIC ID Detected: 0x85 0x74 0x61 0x90
>>> Sending 2ndFile:
>>> Downloading file: 100.000% completed (10516/10516 bytes)
>>> File download completed.
>>>
>>> However, the BBB boots from the eMMC instead of the x-loan.bin I
>>> downloaded.  So this is progress.  It means that my pserial command does
>>> work with a BBB and the BBB ROM code does respond with its ASIC ID and does
>>> in fact download the x-load.bin.  It looks like I just need to figure out
>>> what the correct boot switch power on sequence is now.
>>>
>>> On Sunday, July 20, 2014 10:36:45 AM UTC-5, Dallas Clement wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi William.  Thanks for the help.  I'm stuck much earlier on than
>>>> u-boot.  I am expecting the ROM to return the ASIC ID when I run the
>>>> pserial command to try and load the first stage boot loader (x-load.bin).
>>>>  I'm not even able to get past that.  It looks like either I have the wrong
>>>> pserial command or maybe the BBB ROM does not provide an ASIC ID.  I don't
>>>> know enough about the Sitara processor to say.  If I can get the x-loader
>>>> to work, I think I am home free because it should be able to load a
>>>> u-boot.bin.
>>>>
>>>> On Sunday, July 20, 2014 10:18:50 AM UTC-5, William Hermans wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Ok after reading the second link fully, I noticed a few things.
>>>>>
>>>>> First, the boot file is different. We have zImage typically, so I
>>>>> would assume the bootz command would be necessary. *OR* you could convert 
>>>>> a
>>>>> zImage to uImage.
>>>>>
>>>>> Secondly, the base load address is different, so this would need to be
>>>>> taken into account. Although I think changing this would be fairly simple.
>>>>>
>>>>> Lastly, we also need to load the device tree board file, and I am a
>>>>> bit confused about this for loading serially.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 7:59 AM, William Hermans <yyr...@gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> uboot is supposed to handle serial booting. However, I have no
>>>>>> personal hands on. Just a quick google search showed many results 
>>>>>> however.
>>>>>> One thing to note is that uboot for the BBB is patched, so possibly
>>>>>> different. It does not however make sense for this feature to be patched
>>>>>> out, so I would assume that it should work.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Sorry for the less than definitive answer, perhaps someone with hands
>>>>>> on will respond. You can however experiment on your own.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://blackfin.uclinux.org/doku.php?id=bootloaders:u-
>>>>>> boot:serial_port_loading_files
>>>>>> http://blog.mezeske.com/?p=483
>>>>>>
>>>>>> $ apt-cache search ckermit
>>>>>> ckermit - serial and network communications package
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Second link package mentioned is available, so looks to be possible.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 7:44 AM, Dallas Clement <
>>>>>> dallas.a...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I am trying to boot my BBB over a serial connection, and need a
>>>>>>> little help.  I have followed the instructions for UART recovery listed
>>>>>>> here http://elinux.org/BeagleBoardRecovery
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I built the pserial tool and an x-loan.bin, but when I try to load
>>>>>>> it, I just getting hanging.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> $ sudo ./pserial -p /dev/ttyUSB0 -f x-load.bin
>>>>>>> Waiting For Device ASIC ID: Press Ctrl+C to stop
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I am using a 6 pin TTL to USB cable to my PC.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Perhaps the x-load.bin I am using is for the wrong processor
>>>>>>> (BeagleBoard)?  If so, maybe I can convert the MLO produced by the BBB
>>>>>>> u-boot build to a x-load.bin.  Just need a few pointers on how to do 
>>>>>>> that.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Dallas
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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