Hello fellas I have an unstablity problem. When I try to upload binaries to my mini, I noticed that boards freezes at a point randomly. I format my flash and then try again to restore from usb, and it failed unfortunately. Also I noticed that when i try to change the partition, - after each change, I wrote to flash - it is loading back the original values once the board restarted. So I run out of solutions. Eager to hear yours... Deha
Think you are going to have to give a few more details about what tools you are using and what you are trying to. Then pick the first problem you notice. Are you monitoring the kernel while it is booting, then a screenshot of what it is trying to tell you would probably be helpful.
Hi davef Sorry for insufficient details.I was in a hurry so just wrote something without reading what I have written. First of all I would like to mention that I have mini2440-64Mb with 3,5" LCD So here is my problem's details. I would like to download the supervivi ( latest one ) to my board. Then I noticed that partition for vivi on the board is not big enough to download the supervivi. So I change the partitions, and before quitting I wrote the settings to flash, as it described. After, I was able to download the supervivi to the board.Nothing wrong till now. Next thing is to download linux kernel and guess what? its size is also bigger than as it partitioned, so I changed all partitions according to the new sizes of files( supervivi, zImage,root_qtopia). And write the settings before quitting. When I try to download the zImage, suddenly it stop at a point around %9 of all process. Then I reset the board and tataaaaa! all partition information was resetted to default ones. I did the same procedure above once more, and this time download process stopped around %37.Reset the board do the same partition and other stuff, and try to download... andddd stopped at %23 Finally I gave up and decided to write it down in forum. May be I am missing something basic. Cheers Deha
I guess you installed supervivi to NAND replacing vboot. On my board supervivi resides in NOR. As I understand (and I might be wrong) the partitions are created by the bootloader every time you boot - so once booting fom NOR restores the original partitions.
Just downloaded zImages (2010-01-13) 12 MB and Qtopia 2.2.0 64M 2010-01-08 and then your message came up. I have no experience changing partitions so I didn't proceed with flashing these images. Now, I believe there is an issue with getting the right version of Supervivi for the kernel and/or root_qtopia-64M.img used. My understanding is that you have to JTAG the new version of Supervivi into NOR and then the new kernel and root-qtopia images as normal. Can you put your original kernel and root-qtopia back in? Supervivi (2009-11-10) I hope this is the correct version for the above kernel and root-qtopia. The H-JTAG programs in the downloads section are pretty straight forward. HTH Dave
Go to www.andahammer.com and get their "Updating the bootloader to NOR with JTAG"
I was able to restore the system from usb after several tryout. It seems to be a hardware problem I guess, because even if I try to restore the backup binary to board, it hangs out on a random point of all process.(%6 , %34, and %80 damn! I was so close) But finally I was able to restore the system back. Does any of you have this kind of problem as well? Cheers Deha
I have heard of someone having a similar problem. You either have to read through every likely post or hope you get lucky with the search. Also, there was another site www.friendlyarm.org but it has disappeared. Pleased to report that flashing the latest Supervivi (using H_JTAG), kernel and root-qtopia gives me a working system on my 64M 3.5" machine. Good luck.
The partitions are the same as with 2.6.29.4 (June 2009)
H_JTAG... I guess I need to read more. Thanx in Advance BTW. My kernel is older than that, I was doing my military service, so I am not on the stage for a while ( about 8 months )