unable to boot 11.2-BETA1 on BeagleBone

[Christopher Hall]

Hello Glen,

On Tue, 15 May 2018 13:46:49 +0000, Glen Barber <gjb at 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.

Interesting, I have a BBB that only shows CCC when trying to boot
FreeBSD, It happened a long time ago with a 12.0 snapshot.  It did not
boot Linux either so I had presumed hardware failure. I will get the
Beta1 and try; I have another that boots currently Arch Linux so will
try both.

> 
> So, I wasn't entirely sure if it was "just me" or not.
> 
> Could you please open a PR about this, assigned to freebsd-arm@ and
> with re@ in CC?
> 
> Glen
> 


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Best Regards.
Christopher Hall.