freebsd stable - May 2018 - unable to boot 11.2-BETA1 on BeagleBone

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.
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.

the boot partition on uSD shows:
# ll /.autofs/da2s1
total 700
-rwxrwxrwx  1 root  wheel   77092 2018-05-04 09:58 MLO*
-rwxrwxrwx  1 root  wheel     199 2018-05-04 11:43 boot.scr*
-rwxrwxrwx  1 root  wheel  393872 2018-05-04 09:58 u-boot.img*
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  236388 2018-05-04 11:42 ubldr.bin*
> 
> 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
> 

-- 
Best Regards.
Christopher Hall.

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 <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.
> 
> 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.

Glen

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