Howto download program bin to empty IPNC36X from sd card?

Default configuration of the utility installs binaries of evaluation demo. For IPNC you need to edit config file. Please read carefully manual without panic.

Just to add to above point.

In IPNC 2.5 Release we have attached latest Package for IPNC DM36x SD boot with updated binaries. The package contains 'sd_boot_readme.txt' which gives you procedure of how to update the SDCard appropriately.

Hello Mathew,

I've faced with the following problem - I'm trying to prepare bootable SD card to restore DM368 IPNC. Going through steps documented in the IPNC User Guide, part 2.2.2 (Updating UBL, U-boot and Diagnostic file using SDCARD) I see error messages in the log like "Failed to copy boot record...".

Please see below the log (I didn't put steps for make and export commands here, they are OK):

ubuntu@ubuntu-laptop:~/workdir/IPNC_src/Utils/dm3xx_sd_boot-6.1$ sudo ./dm3xx_sd_boot format /dev/sdb
cleaning SD card
1000+0 records in
1000+0 records out
1024000 bytes (1.0 MB) copied, 0.425341 s, 2.4 MB/s

Disk /dev/sdb: 1015 cylinders, 61 heads, 62 sectors/track

sfdisk: ERROR: sector 0 does not have an msdos signature
 /dev/sdb: unrecognized partition table type
Old situation:
No partitions found
New situation:
Units = mebibytes of 1048576 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0

   Device Boot Start   End    MiB    #blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *     0+    40-    41-     41601+   b  W95 FAT32
/dev/sdb2   *    40+  1874-  1834-   1877763   83  Linux
/dev/sdb3         0      -      0          0    0  Empty
/dev/sdb4         0      -      0          0    0  Empty
Successfully wrote the new partition table

Re-reading the partition table ...

mkfs.vfat 3.0.7 (24 Dec 2009)
Seek to 1733196800:Invalid argument
0+0 records in
0+0 records out
0 bytes (0 B) copied, 2.7099e-05 s, 0.0 kB/s
0+1 records in
0+1 records out
19 bytes (19 B) copied, 3.7644e-05 s, 505 kB/s
total 15000
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 15360000 2011-03-18 12:31 dm3xx.dat
SD card /dev/sdb formatted
10000+0 records in
10000+0 records out
10240000 bytes (10 MB) copied, 0.552774 s, 18.5 MB/s
dm3xx_boot_data_addr=0x0a4400
./dm3xx_sd_boot: line 64: bin.x86/dm3xx_boot_make_image: Permission denied
Failed to copy boot record to SD card
Please reinsert the card for auto mounting or mount it manually
ubuntu@ubuntu-laptop:~/workdir/IPNC_src/Utils/dm3xx_sd_boot-6.1$ cat /proc/partitions
major minor  #blocks  name

   8        0  244198584 sda
   8        1  238163593 sda1
   8        2          1 sda2
   8        5    6032376 sda5
   8       16    1921024 sdb
   8       17      41601 sdb1
   8       18    1877763 sdb2
ubuntu@ubuntu-laptop:~/workdir/IPNC_src/Utils/dm3xx_sd_boot-6.1$ sudo umount /dev/sdb1
ubuntu@ubuntu-laptop:~/workdir/IPNC_src/Utils/dm3xx_sd_boot-6.1$ sudo umount /dev/sdb2
umount: /dev/sdb2: not mounted
ubuntu@ubuntu-laptop:~/workdir/IPNC_src/Utils/dm3xx_sd_boot-6.1$ mount /dev/sdb1 /media/disk
mount: only root can do that
ubuntu@ubuntu-laptop:~/workdir/IPNC_src/Utils/dm3xx_sd_boot-6.1$ sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /media/disk
ubuntu@ubuntu-laptop:~/workdir/IPNC_src/Utils/dm3xx_sd_boot-6.1$ sudo make install
./dm3xx_sd_boot data
copying data to
./dm3xx_sd_boot: line 125: bin.x86/dm3xx_boot_make_image: Permission denied
failed to build data image
ubuntu@ubuntu-laptop:~/workdir/IPNC_src/Utils/dm3xx_sd_boot-6.1$ sudo ./dm3xx_sd_boot data /media/disk/
copying data to
./dm3xx_sd_boot: line 125: bin.x86/dm3xx_boot_make_image: Permission denied
failed to build data image
ubuntu@ubuntu-laptop:~/workdir/IPNC_src/Utils/dm3xx_sd_boot-6.1$

Could you please advise what could be wrong here?

Best regards,

Ilya

Ilya,

Could you please share the dm3xx_sd.config file. Also could you check if you first format the Card using HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool and then try once more. It does not seem to have partitioned correctly. Also could you try mounting /dev/sdb partition instead of /dev/sdb1 to /media/disk

Thanks,

Anith

Anith,

Please have a look at the attached file.

I tried to format SD card with HP USB Disk Storage Format tool, as well as with fdisk. Both ways don't work, still the same problem.

Regarding mount - the script partitions SD-card to two parts, one FAT32 and another one - Linux (though it  looks like that it was formatted incorrectly and I then manually formatted it to ext3).

Best regards,

Ilya

I have also encountered the sd card format fail, the log as following,

[root@localhost dm3xx_sd_boot-6.1]# ./dm3xx_sd_boot format /dev/sdb1
cleaning SD card
1000+0 records in
1000+0 records out
1024000 bytes (1.0 MB) copied, 0.00250123 s, 409 MB/s
BLKRRPART: Invalid argument
Failed to format SD card
10000+0 records in
10000+0 records out
10240000 bytes (10 MB) copied, 0.868302 s, 11.8 MB/s
dm3xx_boot_data_addr=0x
Image dm3xx_boot_rec:please define dm3xx_boot_data_addr
10000+0 records in
10000+0 records out
10240000 bytes (10 MB) copied, 0.08996 s, 114 MB/s
dm3xx boot record is written
Please reinsert the card for auto mounting or mount it manually
[root@localhost dm3xx_sd_boot-6.1]# sh -x ./dm3xx_sd_boot format /dev/sdb1
+ set -o allexport
+ SUCCESS='\033[2;32m'
+ BLUE='\033[1;34m'
+ RED='\033[0;31m'
+ WARNING='\033[0;33m'
+ NOCOLOR='\033[0;39m'
+ GREENU='\033[4;32m'
+ sdc_mnt=/mnt/sdc
+ u=DM35x_FlashAndBootUtils_1_10_sd
++ uname -m
++ sed -e 's/i.86.*/x86/' -e 's/arm.*/arm/' -e 's/x86.*/x86/'
+ arch=x86
+ export PATH=/usr/lib/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/lib/ccache:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/opt/jre1.6.0_23/bin:/opt/cmake-2.8.3-Linux-i386/bin:/opt/mv_pro_4.0/montavista/pro/devkit/arm/v5t_le/bin:/opt/mv_pro_4.0/motavista/pro/bin:/opt/mv_pro_4.0/montavista/common/bin:/root/bin:bin.x86
+ PATH=/usr/lib/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/lib/ccache:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/opt/jre1.6.0_23/bin:/opt/cmake-2.8.3-Linux-i386/bin:/opt/mv_pro_4.0/montavista/pro/devkit/arm/v5t_le/bin:/opt/mv_pro_4.0/motavista/pro/bin:/opt/mv_pro_4.0/montavista/common/bin:/root/bin:bin.x86
+ . ./dm3xx_sd.config
++ a=DM36x
++ case $platform in
++ ubl=original/UBL_DM36x_NAND.bin
++ uboot=original/u-boot-1.3.4-dm365_evm.bin
++ kernel=original/uImage-dm365
++ rootfs=original/ramdisk.gz
+++ echo '/media/*/dm3xx.dat'
++ data_file='/media/*/dm3xx.dat'
++ ls sdcard_flash/sdcard_flash_DM36x.bin
+ sdboot=sdcard_flash/sdcard_flash_DM36x.bin
+ cmd=format
+ '[' -z format ']'
+ shift
+ sd=/dev/sdb1
+ case "$cmd" in
+ :
+ sdcard_fat /dev/sdb1
+ sd=/dev/sdb1
+ '[' -z /dev/sdb1 ']'
+ test -b /dev/sdb11
+ test -b /dev/sdb1p1
+ sfdisk -s
+ umount /mnt/sdc
+ true
+ umount
+ true
+ printf 'cleaning SD card\n'
cleaning SD card
+ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb1 bs=1024 count=1000
1000+0 records in
1000+0 records out
1024000 bytes (1.0 MB) copied, 0.0215047 s, 47.6 MB/s
+ umount
+ true
+ printf ',40,b,*\n,,,*\n'
+ sfdisk -uM -q /dev/sdb1
BLKRRPART: Invalid argument
+ echo_failure Failed to format SD card
+ printf '\033[0;31mFailed to format SD card\033[0;39m\n'
Failed to format SD card
+ return 1
+ return
+ sdcard_dm3xx_boot /dev/sdb1
+ sd=/dev/sdb1
+ '[' -z /dev/sdb1 ']'
+ dm3xx_boot_rec=dm3xx_boot_rec
+ rm -f dm3xx_boot_rec
+ dm3xx_boot_data_addr_get /dev/sdb1
+ '[' -z '' ']'
+ sd=/dev/sdb1
+ '[' -z /dev/sdb1 ']'
+ dd if=/dev/sdb1 of=/tmp/image.fat bs=1024 count=10000
10000+0 records in
10000+0 records out
10240000 bytes (10 MB) copied, 0.975364 s, 10.5 MB/s
++ od -A x -t x8 /tmp/image.fat
+++ echo -n dm3xx_boot_magic
+++ od -A n -t x8
++ cut -f 1 -d ' '
++ grep ' 6f625f7878336d64 636967616d5f746f'
+ export dm3xx_boot_data_addr=0x
+ dm3xx_boot_data_addr=0x
+ printf 'dm3xx_boot_data_addr=0x\n'
dm3xx_boot_data_addr=0x
+ dm3xx_boot_make_image
Image dm3xx_boot_rec:please define dm3xx_boot_data_addr
+ dd if=dm3xx_boot_rec of=/dev/sdb1 seek=8
+ dd if=/dev/sdb1 of=/tmp/image.fat bs=1024 count=10000
10000+0 records in
10000+0 records out
10240000 bytes (10 MB) copied, 1.32289 s, 7.7 MB/s
+ echo_success dm3xx boot record is written
+ printf '\033[2;32mdm3xx boot record is written\033[0;39m\n'
dm3xx boot record is written
+ chmod 777 /tmp/image.fat
+ echo Please reinsert the card for auto mounting or mount it manually
Please reinsert the card for auto mounting or mount it manually
+ set -o allexport

./dm3xx_sd_boot format /dev/sdb1

Constantin,

I've put the command exactly like you mentioned, please have a look couple of post earlier - it gives en error when trying to copy boot data.
What could be wrong there?

Best regards,
Ilya

Why

IlyaChepurin said:

./dm3xx_sd_boot: line 64: bin.x86/dm3xx_boot_make_image: Permission denied

That's a good question - this error I get after running dn3xx_sd_boot format command.
And I wonder what I do wrong.
The process I do is as follows:
1. Format 2Gb SD-card to FAT32 (either with HP utility or with fdisk). I also changed the geometry of SD card (255 heads, 63 sectors and 239 cylinders), then formatted to FAT32 (one partition).
2. Mount SD-card and then run dm3xx_sd_boot (after make and PATH as mentioned in the readme)
After these two steps I get the log which I shown earlier.
I tried also two SD-cards, no difference.

Best regards,
Ilya

IlyaChepurin said:

I also changed the geometry of SD card

IlyaChepurin said:

That's a good question - this error I get after running dn3xx_sd_boot format command.

I've figured out what was wrong: in the bin.x86 folder I had old dm3xx_boot_make_image binary.
Don't know why but make clean doesn't delete this file (I guess there is an error in the line rm-f  dm3xx_boot_mke_image - it should point to the right location) and also when I compile the newly compiled doesn't overwrites the old one.
So I just deleted this file, recompile and now everything works fine.

BR,
Ilya

Hi Ilya,

Did you succeed to boot from SD on IPNC ???

I also trying to boot and there's no error to write.

but after short J2 and boot, nothing happened.

IPNC doesn't support sd boot?

thank you.

Jay.

Thank you for your answer. It works!

Jay.