BeagleBoard-xM - can't boot Arch Linux from microSD card

[WarheadsSE]

Hello,

First; i'm new to this => i'm deeply sorry if this is a stupid question answered 100 times before!

I'm trying to install Arch Linux on a SD card for Beagleboard-xM, but i can't get it to boot... From the serial port i get the following output (Tux is displayed on the HDMI display):
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Texas Instruments X-Loader 1.5.1 (Jul 20 2011 - 09:50:57)
Beagle xM
Reading boot sector
Loading u-boot.bin from mmc

U-Boot 2011.06-dirty (Jul 19 2011 - 17:30:34)

OMAP36XX/37XX-GP ES2.1, CPU-OPP2, L3-165MHz, Max CPU Clock 1 Ghz
OMAP3 Beagle board + LPDDR/NAND
I2C: ready
DRAM: 512 MiB
NAND: 0 MiB
MMC: OMAP SD/MMC: 0
*** Warning - readenv() failed, using default environment

In: serial
Out: serial
Err: serial
Beagle xM Rev C
No EEPROM on expansion board
Die ID #54ec00029ff80000016842c81101202c
Net: Net Initialization Skipped
No ethernet found.
Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0
SD/MMC found on device 0
reading uEnv.txt

273 bytes read
Importing environment from mmc ...
reading boot.scr

225 bytes read
Running boot.scr script from mmc ...
## Executing script at 82000000
mmc - MMC sub system

Usage:
mmc read addr blk# cnt
mmc write addr blk# cnt
mmc rescan
mmc part - lists available partition on current mmc device
mmc dev [dev] [part] - show or set current mmc device [partition]
mmc list - lists available devices
reading uImage

4409244 bytes read
## Booting kernel from Legacy Image at 80300000 ...
Image Name: Linux-3.1.6-1-ARCH
Image Type: ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
Data Size: 4409180 Bytes = 4.2 MiB
Load Address: 80008000
Entry Point: 80008000
Verifying Checksum ... OK
Loading Kernel Image ... OK
OK

Starting kernel ...

Uncompressing Linux... done, booting the kernel.
[ 0.088378] Unable to get DVI reset GPIO
[ 0.184692] _omap_mux_init_gpio: Could not set gpio192
[ 2.720245] twl4030_wdt twl4030_wdt: Failed to register misc device
[ 5.235778] mmc0: error -110 whilst initialising SD card

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i'm doing something completely stupid, but don't know what -- please help??

thanks a million,
br/benner

[kmihelich]

Looks like the mmc command in boot.scr is messed up.. can you post the commands you used to generate it?

[bennerhq]

i used the instructions from http://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv7/beagleboard-xm, i.e.;

1) created bootcmd:
setenv bootargs 'console=ttyO2,115200n8 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rw rootfstype=ext3 rootwait'
mmc init
fatload mmc 0 0x80300000 uImage
bootm 0x80300000
boot

2)
# mkimage -A arm -O linux -T script -C none -a 0 -e 0 -n "Beagleboard-xM boot script" -d bootcmd boot.scr


br/benner

[andre]

'mmc init' is removed from newer versions of u-boot,
it's no longer required to manually initialise the mmc,
therefore you should just remove the mmc init line

[RunningLight]

So I just got hold of a BeagleBoardXM, rev A2, tried the same instructions bennerhq tried, and got the same time-out failure during boot (mmc0: error -110 ...).

Deleting the 'mmc init' instruction from boot.scr as suggested by andre did NOT solve the problem; the kernel still hangs at the SD initialisation step.

Does anyone have another suggestion? I had no difficulty booting Angstrom Linux on the same board using the same microSD card with either the validation or the demo image.

A shot in the dark: The ArchLinuxARM distribution includes kernel 3.1.6 and the Angstrom distribution includes kernel 2.6.32. I don't know how their mmc/sd subsystems differ and whether this has any bearing on the problem.

Regards,
Kent

[WarheadsSE]

The kernel is after uboot

[RunningLight]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('WarheadsSE', 'T')he kernel is after uboot

[RunningLight]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('RunningLight', 'S')o I just got hold of a BeagleBoardXM, rev A2, tried the same instructions bennerhq tried, and got the same time-out failure during boot (mmc0: error -110 ...).

Deleting the 'mmc init' instruction from boot.scr as suggested by andre did NOT solve the problem; the kernel still hangs at the SD initialisation step.

Does anyone have another suggestion? I had no difficulty booting Angstrom Linux on the same board using the same microSD card with either the validation or the demo image.

A shot in the dark: The ArchLinuxARM distribution includes kernel 3.1.6 and the Angstrom distribution includes kernel 2.6.32. I don't know how their mmc/sd subsystems differ and whether this has any bearing on the problem.

Regards,
Kent

[cyberic]

You could take a kernel that 'works' from another distribution, and run archlinux on it?

[RunningLight]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('cyberic', 'Y')ou could take a kernel that 'works' from another distribution, and run archlinux on it?