Re: Sandpoint problems

The sandpoint has at least two (sometimes three) flash parts. The one
containing DINK is on the PCI bus on the motherboard. One or two other
flash parts are on the PrMC card connected to the local memory bus. It
is normal to leave DINK alone and program one of the other flash parts
with an alternate boot loader. There are a series of dip switches that
switch between programming and booting from the various flash parts.
Unfortunately the documentation for the switch positions is very
confusing and unless you get it exactly right the board will not boot.
The best document I've found describing this is Application Note AN2487
"Configuring Motorola PrMC Cards". You can get this from the Motorola
web site.

Greg

On Feb 16, 2004, at 3:59 AM, Jack Liu wrote:

Wolfgang Denk:
   Sorry about this mess.
  ======= 2004-02-16 10:35:00 Origianl message=======

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In message [ref] you wrote:

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  I am planning to use U-Boot to replace DINK13 shipped in
Sandpoint platform. I got a sucessful compilation by: Make
Sandpoint8245_config, Make all . Then I Burn u_boot.src in the Boot
ROM. IT CAN'T BOOT. I used all default setting in the PrPMC8245 and
Sandpoint board. I didn't know the reason. Anybody knows?

First, this is off topic on the linuxppc-embedded list. Please send
U-Boot related questions to the u-boot-users list. Thanks.

  Sorry about this mess.

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What exactly did you do? "I Burn u_boot.src"? There is no file
u_boot.src. Do you mean u_boot.srec? Note that this is a S-Record file
- are you sure you need to use the S-record file?

 I used u_boot.srec. To program flash, it will first be converted to
binary file.

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Where exactly in flash did you program it? How did you verify that the
flash programming worked?

 I loaded u_boot in the bootrom of sandpoint board. And the same method
was used on DINK.

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And what exactly do you mean by "it can't boot"? (An why are you
shouting?) Is the board completely dead? Is there Some output? Which?
Does U-Boot run, but fails to boot Linux? Or what?

    PCI LED on the board is active continuously.Yet no output. u-boot
can not boot. Did I miss anything?

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Best regards
Jack

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