On 2014-07-16 14:03, Bill Albertson wrote:
No, I’ve tried the latest snapshot, and the one prior, and had exactly
the same results on both occasions with the Cubie2 (A20). I’ve gone
back and duplicated those results using an OpenBSD system to author
the images as well.
I’ve noted that there is an overlapping set of partitions created by
the imaging script, and I’ve been told that is “normal”. However, I
haven’t had the time to go back and try non-overlapped partitioning
mechanisms to try and figure out which combination will allow me to
boot.
Simply copying the files over to a regular USB stick and flagging it
“bootable” doesn’t work either, though that had been suggested.
I was able to get it to at least boot the OpenBSD installer by flashing
a newer u-boot from
http://dl.linux-sunxi.org/nightly/u-boot-sunxi/u-boot-sunxi/. Following
Patrick's suggestion, I wrote miniroot-sunxi-55.fs to a microsd card,
then wrote u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin as follows:
dd if=u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin of=/dev/sdX bs=1024 seek=8
This actually allowed me to boot into the installer, but it didn't made
it past probing USB. I think it was failing on probing for the nand
flash, which comes after USB. Subsequent attempts haven't even got that
far, and I'm unable to install Arch, or any of the other Linux distros
on it. I'm assuming I have a bad board.
Anyway, maybe this will help someone else.
Regards,
Mike
