U-boot problem on Beaglebard-xM

[Simplycissimys]

I try to install arch linux on my beaglebard-xM, do all exactly as the insructions here: http://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv7/beagleboard-xm. But when I turn on begleboard nothing happens. There is only one message "hdmi has no signal", so I think that it is problem with u-boot. I've already tried a few boot scripts for boot.scr file. The result is the same. What can be wrong ?

[minos197]

I have been having excactly the same problem.I did try:
[*]Using 4 different SD cards 4,4,8,16,,all of them formatter by both the utility and manually using the fdisk tool (255 heads,63 Sectors,calculated Cylinders)
[*]Formatted to fat16 and EXT3,
[*]Manually copied the MLO file first on bootloader,
[*]Extracted filestystem rootfs as root.
[*]Tried any possible combination of uboot commands,removing the init line or adding HDMI as optional argument

No matter what the system responded exactly the same was as it did not have a memory card.I thought the board was busted but then installed debian amstrong and ubuntu succesfully on the same board.

I do suspect those instructions dont work anymore or something changed on either bootloader ,kernel or FS that locks the boot proccess.

[andre]

I remember having troubles on my BeagleBoard, but perhaps the same also applies to the xM,
as the instructions look the same.

The solution is not to use the instructions to create the partition, but to use a script which is inside the bootloader tarball.
This script doesn't work correctly either, but at least it makes the correct partitions. You will have to eject the card after running the script, and then create the file systems manually, and copy the files over.

See my blog http://andre.blaatschaap.be/2012/01/arc ... agleboard/