First Boot

[mdframe]

I just received my first board and have attempted several different methods to get the console to display. All of the information indicates it can be utilized with a USB hub or USB power supply however I am wondering if this is true. I have tried all the different serial settings in Putty and cannot get any console interaction. No information is ever displayed and no indication it is starting. I am starting to believe the device is DOA.

Anyone have any recommendations for first time setup or some serial settings I should try?

Thanks,

Matt

[dpreviti]

You should be using 115200,n81 for the putty terminal console settings. It’s a serial connection and will be an odd com port you can find which one by opening windows device management and expanding com ports. the USB to com port is the one you will use as a serial connection. Mines com4 but it changes occasionally. Also make sure your using the MICRO USB slot, not the two regular USB ports. Your green light should light on the board when your computer is plugged into the espresso micro port.

HTH

David

[mdframe]

Thanks David, that all matches my attempts. I have tried connecting with two Windows machines and an Ubuntu with no luck. I do get a solid green light and the board is recognized by all connections I just never receive anything other than a blank screen.

I don’t believe it will startup on 5v so I have ordered a 12v power supply. I could only guess at the plug size since specs are not listed anywhere on this site. I will update my post once I get the new power supply.

[mdframe]

You definitely need the 12v adapter to get the console to work. Now that I have it the UBoot image is starting and reporting issues with the onboard image load. I have not added any USB or micro-sd cards to the device at this point. I was just trying to follow the “Getting Started” information prior to adding or performing any activities. If you look at the information below you will see the errors.

Booting Trusted Firmware
BL1: v1.2(release):armada-17.02.0:
BL1: Built : 17:28:05, May 18 2NOTICE: BL2: v1.2(release):armada-17.02.0:
NOTICE: BL2: Built : 17:28:06, May 18 20NOTICE: BL31: v1.2(release):armada-17.02.0:
NOTICE: BL31:

U-Boot 2015.01-armada-17.02.0-g48dc978 (May 18 2017 – 17:28:01)

I2C: ready
DRAM: 1 GiB
Board: DB-88F3720-ESPRESSOBin
CPU @ 1000 [MHz]
L2 @ 800 [MHz]
TClock @ 200 [MHz]
DDR @ 800 [MHz]
Comphy-0: PEX0 2.5 Gbps
Comphy-1: USB3 5 Gbps
Comphy-2: SATA0 5 Gbps
Now running in RAM – U-Boot at: 3ff2b000
U-Boot DT blob at : 000000003fa18168
MMC: XENON-SDHCI: 0
SF: Detected W25Q32DW with page size 256 Bytes, erase size 4 KiB, total 4 MiB
PCIE-0: Link down
SCSI: SATA link 0 timeout.
AHCI 0001.0300 32 slots 1 ports 6 Gbps 0x1 impl SATA mode
flags: ncq led only pmp fbss pio slum part sxs
Net: neta0
Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0
Card did not respond to voltage select!
Card did not respond to voltage select!
** Bad device mmc 0 **
Card did not respond to voltage select!
** Bad device mmc 0 **
Bad Linux ARM64 Image magic!
Marvell>>

Can the internal firmware image be reloaded?

[dpreviti]

@mdframe as far as I could tell there isn’t a operating system on a flash memory drive. I pulled my card and that was the same error I received. The plug didn’t boot without the card so I assume it’s not like the sheevaplug and has none.

[mdframe]

Thanks David for confirming what I was experiencing. I went ahead and built a bootable Ubuntu micro-sd card however had no luck with that either. Both of my Linux boxes read and show information on the 16gb card correctly, which was built on Linux as a ext4 file system, however the Espresso only shows a directory structure with 0 bytes in all folders. I followed all the directions from this site and then performed it a second time just to make sure I didn’t miss anything however the ext4 Marvell command only shows empty folders. Do you have any hints on how to get the Espresso to read micro-sd’s maybe a smaller card or some other trick? I really want to give this card a fair shake with a project I am working.

Thanks again for the help.

Matt

[dpreviti]

Matt,

I’m sorry that one is beyond me as a Linux is only a hobby. Hopefully someone with some more nix experience can chime in to help.
Good luck

[mdframe]

Thanks David, I found the same issue in the SD image topic however now the board is unresponsive. I appreciate your time and support on the challenges I am encountering.

Take care,

Matt

[dpreviti]

No problem, in after thought try posting a general question on http://www.unix.com/

Not many microcomputer users but I’ve gotten help from that forum before they are a pretty knowledgeable group.

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