On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 09:26:01PM -0500, Mike Karels wrote: > > Hi Christopher, > > > On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 10:02:30AM +0800, Christopher Hall wrote: > > > Hello Glen, > > > > > > On Tue, 15 May 2018 13:46:49 +0000, Glen Barber <g...@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > > > > > On Sat, May 12, 2018 at 04:33:26PM -0500, Mike Karels wrote: > > > > > I tried to boot 11.2-BETA1 on a BeagleBone Black that had been > > > > > running 11.1-RELEASE. It didn't boot, falling back to the EMMC > > > > > (which isn't bootable, a different problem). I was also unable to > > > > > boot the snapshot from 12/20. I see that the boot partition has > > > > > different contents: > > > > > > > > > > 11.1-RELEASE: > > > > > MLO u-boot.img ubldr ubldr.bin > > > > > > > > > > 11.2-BETA1: > > > > > MLO boot.scr u-boot.img ubldr.bin > > > > > > > > > > Has anyone else been able to boot on a BeagleBone? > > > > > > > > > > > > > I saw this too with 11.2-BETA1, but due to inconsistencies between two > > > > different BeagleBone SoCs used to test, could not rule out if the > > > > problem was due to local hardware failure. > > > > > > > > Specifically, one of two I have has the EMMC overwritten to avoid > > > > needing to "manually" boot FreeBSD, and the UART does not work > > > > correctly (because I am dangerous with solder), and nothing outputted > > > > on the HDMI console. The other system has working EMMC, seemingly > > > > broken HDMI output, but working UART that only displayed repeated 'C' > > > > when booting. > > > > > > Just tried > > > FreeBSD-11.2-PRERELEASE-arm-armv6-BEAGLEBONE-20180504-r333226.img.xz > > > > > > on my working BBB but only got repeated 'C' on serial port. > > > > > > To be clear, you observed the repeated 'C' on the serial port, and the > > system did not boot? I want to make sure, since you mentioned you did > > see at least some repetition of 'C' on the console but eventually the > > system did come up fine. > > > In either case, thank you very much for testing. > > Following up on previous email and filling in details: > > I also get repeated 'C' on the serial console when the sytem tries to > boot from EMMC. With 11.2-BETA1 or the older snapshot, this happened > even if I held down the boot switch. I think it is from a repeated > error that I have also seen along the lines of "Cannot set timing on EMMC" > but I can't prove that. But it boots fine from SD card with 11.1, > and (fwiw) the EMMC works fine from FreeBSD. > > I'll file the PR if no one has beaten me to it. >
Please do, and thank you for the report. By the way, I had intended to follow-up to the 11.2-BETA1 announcement with a "hey, can someone test the BBB image, I think I have faulty hardware", but my outbox suggests it was never sent. My apologies to everyone that has run into this issue with 11.2-BETA1. Glen
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