From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gary Thomas To: "Smith, Timothy" Cc: "ecos-discuss@sourceware.cygnus.com" Subject: RE: [ECOS] Problems flashing MBX board with Redboot Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 05:13:00 -0000 Message-id: References: <76C92FBBFB58D411AE760090271ED41802ECCC03@RSYS002A> X-SW-Source: 2001-07/msg00354.html On 12-Jul-2001 Smith, Timothy wrote: > Having grabbed the images from http://sources.redhat.com/ecos/boards/redbootbins/mbx860/ for the > MBX860 board (40Mhz, revision 31D I think) and then following the procedure outlined in the docs > using the file redboot_ROM_40.srec > > [ lo 0 > pflash 40000 60000 fc000000 > etc. ] > > to install the image in flash and then swapping J4 leads to the board doing *nothing*. > > Using niop to transfer redboot_ROM_40.bin and then installing that in flash also leads to a non > booting board. I've verified that the images are transferred okay and that the correct data has > been written to flash. Originally the board had a vxWorks boot image and that worked fine. > > What am I doing wrong? > > I've also compiled the redboot image from source and tried all the other possible images from > redhat also compiling them myself and none of those work. Another board was also used. I must > have missed something. Are you sure that you have a 40MHz board? There's no way to tell programmatically and RedBoot/eCos need to set up a number of things appropriately. The 40MHz version most likely will not run on a 50MHz board, nor vice-versa.