DM388: Camera Starter Kit Boot up issue

Ebin Geo Johnson

Part Number: DM388

Recently I got the DM388 camera starter kit. I tired to set it up based on the user guide. Got stuck on Power On and Determining Board IP Address (Section 4.2 user's guide) . Here in Tera Term after setting the serial option, step 6 Boot up is not happening its showing " CCCCC " continues in tera term window. No boot up and so not getting RTSP links.

over 7 years ago

0 Prashant A over 7 years ago

Intellectual 760 points

Hi Ebin,

For first time boot you need to flash images through SD card as explained in section 3.

Regards,
Prashant
PathPartner Technology Pvt Ltd

0 Ravikiran HV over 7 years ago in reply to Prashant A

Mastermind 8715 points

Ebin Geo Johnson,

Have you received any SD card along with the board?
If you have received SD card, please insert the received SD card to card slot on board and boot the board.

Thanks

0 Ravikiran HV over 7 years ago in reply to Ravikiran HV

Mastermind 8715 points

Addition to this, you can refer below link for "Hardware Installation" section for SW1 position on board

processors.wiki.ti.com/.../IPNC_RDK_DM38x_,_DM8127

0 Ebin Geo Johnson over 7 years ago in reply to Ravikiran HV

Prodigy 110 points

Thank you for the reply. I have received SD card along with the board and I was trying to boot with SD Card inserted to card slot. I have not flashed the the SD card, used as it is, as i found dm38x-csk.dtb, MLO, u-boot, uImage files when i checked in PC.

0 Ravikiran HV over 7 years ago in reply to Ebin Geo Johnson

Mastermind 8715 points

Looks you have the right SD card with Images. May be this is not an issue in your case, still I would like to double confirm with you.

Do you have the right power supply for CSK? Please check this document for power supply requirements.

0 Ebin Geo Johnson over 7 years ago in reply to Ravikiran HV

Prodigy 110 points

Yes, i'm using the right power supply with 5V, 3A as per requirement

0 Ravikiran HV over 7 years ago in reply to Ebin Geo Johnson

Mastermind 8715 points

HI Ebin,

It is a very rare scenario where out of the box SD card boot is not working. Sine your board shows 'CCCCC' on UART console on power ON, I assume CSK board is fine but SD card is not good. Please can you follow the steps to prepare bootable SD card for DM388 CSK using pre-built binaries?.

You can refer "prepare SD card" section of this Wiki page for more details on how to prepare bootable SD card.

Note:

Please don't format or modify the SD card shipped. Use a separate SD card for all your experiemnts.
Class-10 SD card is recommonded for booting CSK's.

Thanks

0 Ebin Geo Johnson over 7 years ago in reply to Ravikiran HV

Prodigy 110 points

Hi Ravikiran

I installed IPNC_RDK in my PC. The location where I installed and extracted is home/ti/ipnc_rdk-3.9.0. As you suggested I'm preparing bootable SD card using pre-built binaries.

On host $ dmesg, I got

[ 518.823817] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] 62521344 512-byte logical blocks: (32.0 GB/29.8 GiB)
[ 518.829853] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[ 518.829971] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
[ 518.836444] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page found
[ 518.836447] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through

So I assume my micro-SD card is detected on /dev/sdb

3rd Step: Navigated to

cd ti/ipnc_rdk-3.9.0/Utils/sd-script

4th step: Run the script mksd-ti81xx.sh, I did

sudo ./mksd-ti81xx.sh /dev/sdb /ti/ipnc_rdk-3.9.0/Source/ipnc_rdk/binaries/DM388/sd/MLO /ti/ipnc_rdk-3.9.0/Source/ipnc_rdk/binaries/DM388/sd/u-boot.img /ti/ipnc_rdk-3.9.0/Source/ipnc_rdk/binaries/DM388/sd/dm38x-csk.dtb /ti/ipnc_rdk-3.9.0/Source/ipnc_rdk/binaries/DM388/sd/uImage /ti/ipnc_rdk-3.9.0/Source/ipnc_rdk/binaries/DM388/sd/filesystem_DM388_FULL_FEATURE.tar.

After entering password, I'm getting 'Incorrect MLO Location !' . Please figure out what mistake I'm doing

0 Dwarakesh Radhakrishnan over 7 years ago in reply to Ebin Geo Johnson

Guru 13620 points

Hi,

Unplug the SDCard from PC and still you see /dev/sdb, then it is corrupt device node. Would suggest you to sudo rm -r /dev/sdb and then try again.

0 Ravikiran HV over 7 years ago in reply to Ebin Geo Johnson

Mastermind 8715 points

Please can you post the
1. mksd-ti81xx.sh script
2. ls /ti/ipnc_rdk-3.9.0/Source/ipnc_rdk/binaries/DM388/sd/

Thanks

0 Ebin Geo Johnson over 7 years ago in reply to Ravikiran HV

Prodigy 110 points

Posting the mksd-ti81xx.sh script

#!/bin/bash

if [[ -z $1 || -z $2 || -z $3 || -z $4 || -z $5 || -z $6 ]]
then
echo "mksd-ti81xx Usage:"
echo " mksd-ti81xx <device> <MLO> <u-boot.img> <dtb> <uImage> <rootfs tar.gz>"
echo " Example: mksd-ti81xx /dev/sdc MLO u-boot.img dm38x-csk.dtb uImage nfs.tar.gz"
exit
fi

if ! [[ -e $2 ]]
then
echo "Incorrect MLO location!"
exit
fi

if ! [[ -e $3 ]]
then
echo "Incorrect u-boot.img location!"
exit
fi

if ! [[ -e $4 ]]
then
echo "Incorrect dtb location!"
exit
fi

if ! [[ -e $5 ]]
then
echo "Incorrect uImage location!"
exit
fi

if ! [[ -e $6 ]]
then
echo "Incorrect rootfs location!"
exit
fi

echo "All data on "$1" now will be destroyed! Continue? [y/n]"
read ans
if ! [ $ans == 'y' ]
then
exit
fi

echo "[Partitioning $1...]"

DRIVE=$1
dd if=/dev/zero of=$DRIVE bs=1024 count=1024

SIZE=`fdisk -l $DRIVE | grep Disk | awk '{print $5}'`

echo DISK SIZE - $SIZE bytes

CYLINDERS=`echo $SIZE/255/63/512 | bc`

echo CYLINDERS - $CYLINDERS
{
echo ,9,0x0C,*
echo 10,,,-
} | sfdisk -D -H 255 -S 63 -C $CYLINDERS $DRIVE

echo "[Making filesystems...]"

mkfs.vfat -F 32 -n boot "$1"1 &> /dev/null
mkfs.ext3 -L rootfs "$1"2 &> /dev/null

echo "[Copying files...]"

mount "$1"1 /mnt
cp $2 /mnt/MLO
cp $3 /mnt/u-boot.img
cp $4 /mnt/
cp $5 /mnt/uImage
umount "$1"1

mount "$1"2 /mnt
tar zxvf $6 -C /mnt &> /dev/null
chmod 755 /mnt
umount "$1"2

echo "[Done]"

0 Ravikiran HV over 7 years ago in reply to Ebin Geo Johnson

Mastermind 8715 points

As mentioned in last post, I need " ls /ti/ipnc_rdk-3.9.0/Source/ipnc_rdk/binaries/DM388/sd/" as well. to understand the issue.
script looks okay, but may be there is some issue in your path ?

Thanks

0 Ebin Geo Johnson over 7 years ago in reply to Ravikiran HV

Prodigy 110 points

You want me to attach the files here? it contains MLO, u-boot.img, dm38x-csk.dtb, uImage,

filesystem_DM388_FULL_FEATURE.tar.gz and filesystem_DM388_LOW_POWER.tar.gz

I navigate to the sd script using "cd ti/ipnc_rdk-3.9.0/Utils/sd-script"

To Run the script mksd-ti81xx.sh script

"sudo ./mksd-ti81xx.sh /dev/sdb /ti/ipnc_rdk-3.9.0/Source/ipnc_rdk/binaries/DM388/sd/MLO /ti/ipnc_rdk-3.9.0/Source/ipnc_rdk/binaries/DM388/sd/u-boot.img /ti/ipnc_rdk-3.9.0/Source/ipnc_rdk/binaries/DM388/sd/dm38x-csk.dtb /ti/ipnc_rdk-3.9.0/Source/ipnc_rdk/binaries/DM388/sd/uImage /ti/ipnc_rdk-3.9.0/Source/ipnc_rdk/binaries/DM388/sd/filesystem_DM388_FULL_FEATURE.tar"

0 Dwarakesh Radhakrishnan over 7 years ago in reply to Ebin Geo Johnson

Guru 13620 points

Hi,

Your path for MLO, uboot etc is wrong. Ravi kiran is trying to check that by ls

Please give correct path. It does not start with /ti/ipnc_rdk-3.9.0/Source/ipnc_rdk/binaries/DM388/sd/ , instead try ../../../ipnc_rdk-3.9.0/Source/ipnc_rdk/binaries/DM388/sd/MLO etc

0 Ravikiran HV over 7 years ago in reply to Dwarakesh Radhakrishnan

Mastermind 8715 points

does this path exist on your PC ? check using ls command as below

ls /ti/ipnc_rdk-3.9.0/Source/ipnc_rdk/binaries/DM388/sd/MLO

0 Ebin Geo Johnson over 7 years ago in reply to Ravikiran HV

Prodigy 110 points

Yes the path exist in PC

ims@ims-VirtualBox:~$ ls ti/ipnc_rdk-3.9.0/Source/ipnc_rdk/binaries/DM388/sd/
dm38x-csk.dtb MLO
filesystem_DM388_FULL_FEATURE.tar.gz u-boot.img
filesystem_DM388_LOW_POWER.tar.gz uImage
ims@ims-VirtualBox:~$

0 Dwarakesh Radhakrishnan over 7 years ago in reply to Ebin Geo Johnson

Guru 13620 points

Ravi asked for
ls /ti/ipnc_rdk-3.9.0/Source/ipnc_rdk/binaries/DM388/sd/

and not for
ls ti/ipnc_rdk-3.9.0/Source/ipnc_rdk/binaries/DM388/sd/

There is a difference. a slash / before ti is there in Ravi's ls
Do a pwd here
ims@ims-VirtualBox:~$ pwd

also do a pwd in
ims@ims-VirtualBox:~/ti/ipnc_rdk-3.9.0/Source/ipnc_rdk/binaries/DM388/sd/$

0 Ebin Geo Johnson over 7 years ago in reply to Dwarakesh Radhakrishnan

Prodigy 110 points

ims@ims-VirtualBox:~$ pwd
/home/ims
ims@ims-VirtualBox:~$ cd ti/ipnc_rdk-3.9.0/Source/ipnc_rdk/binaries/DM388/sd
ims@ims-VirtualBox:~/ti/ipnc_rdk-3.9.0/Source/ipnc_rdk/binaries/DM388/sd$ pwd
/home/ims/ti/ipnc_rdk-3.9.0/Source/ipnc_rdk/binaries/DM388/sd
ims@ims-VirtualBox:~/ti/ipnc_rdk-3.9.0/Source/ipnc_rdk/binaries/DM388/sd$ cd
ims@ims-VirtualBox:~$ ls /ti/ipnc_rdk-3.9.0/Source/ipnc_rdk/binaries/DM388/sd/
ls: cannot access /ti/ipnc_rdk-3.9.0/Source/ipnc_rdk/binaries/DM388/sd/: No such file or directory
ims@ims-VirtualBox:~$

0 Prashant A over 7 years ago in reply to Ebin Geo Johnson

Intellectual 760 points

Hi Ebin,

Please try with below command

"sudo ./mksd-ti81xx.sh /dev/sdb /home/ims/ti/ipnc_rdk-3.9.0/Source/ipnc_rdk/binaries/DM388/sd/MLO /home/ims/ti/ipnc_rdk-3.9.0/Source/ipnc_rdk/binaries/DM388/sd/u-boot.img /home/ims/ti/ipnc_rdk-3.9.0/Source/ipnc_rdk/binaries/DM388/sd/dm38x-csk.dtb /home/ims/ti/ipnc_rdk-3.9.0/Source/ipnc_rdk/binaries/DM388/sd/uImage /home/ims/ti/ipnc_rdk-3.9.0/Source/ipnc_rdk/binaries/DM388/sd/filesystem_DM388_FULL_FEATURE.tar.gz"

Regards,

Prashant

PathPartner Technology Pvt Ltd

0 Ebin Geo Johnson over 7 years ago in reply to Prashant A

Prodigy 110 points

ims@ims-VirtualBox:~$ cd ti/ipnc_rdk-3.9.0/Utils/sd-scriptims@ims-VirtualBox:~/ti/ipnc_rdk-3.9.0/Utils/sd-script$ sudo ./mksd-ti81xx.sh /dev/sdb /home/ims/ti/ipnc_rdk-3.9.0/Source/ipnc_rdk/binaries/DM388/sd/MLO /home/ims/ti/ipnc_rdk-3.9.0/Source/ipnc_rdk/binaries/DM388/sd/u-boot.img /home/ims/ti/ipnc_rdk-3.9.0/Source/ipnc_rdk/binaries/DM388/sd/dm38x-csk.dtb /home/ims/ti/ipnc_rdk-3.9.0/Source/ipnc_rdk/binaries/DM388/sd/uImage /home/ims/ti/ipnc_rdk-3.9.0/Source/ipnc_rdk/binaries/DM388/sd/filesystem_DM388_FULL_FEATURE.tar
[sudo] password for ims:
Incorrect rootfs location!
ims@ims-VirtualBox:~/ti/ipnc_rdk-3.9.0/Utils/sd-script$

0 Prashant A over 7 years ago in reply to Ebin Geo Johnson

Intellectual 760 points

Hi Ebin,

Use filesystem_DM388_FULL_FEATURE.tar.gz instead of filesystem_DM388_FULL_FEATURE.tar

Regards,

Prashant

PathPartner Technology Pvt Ltd

0 Ravikiran HV over 7 years ago in reply to Ebin Geo Johnson

Mastermind 8715 points

Hello Ebin,

As indicated by other posts there is problem with the paths you have provided. When you start using the script on day one, It is better to provide absolute path.

For example if you have all the packages placed in use /home/ims/ti/ instead of /ti/ becase directory 'ti' exists in /home/ims/ not in root(/).

Also, please provide complete file system name including extensions such ans gz & tar etc.

Refer this WiKi for more details

Thanks

0 Ebin Geo Johnson over 7 years ago in reply to Ravikiran HV

Prodigy 110 points

Thanks for the support provided by all. Now the new SD card is prepared as you suggested. The new SD is inserted in the card slot. But situation is same the board did not boot up and no RTSP Links.

0 Ravikiran HV over 7 years ago in reply to Ebin Geo Johnson

Mastermind 8715 points

Hello Ebin,

That is strange situation ! Your SD card slot seems to have some problem !

How did you get this board? Was that through your local FAE. I would suggest you to contact your local FAE to get more support.

Thanks

0 Ebin Geo Johnson over 7 years ago in reply to Ravikiran HV

Prodigy 110 points

If SD card slot is having some error, is there any alternative for this like by using the NAND Flash

0 Ravikiran HV over 7 years ago in reply to Ebin Geo Johnson

Mastermind 8715 points

Ebin,

To run nand boot on csk, we should have sd /mmcenabled. Nand can be flashed only after sd boot.

Other boot modes such as uart or tftp are not supported on csk by default.

But this can be enabled and tested with some rework on hardware though it is not a feature supported by TI as of now in the software

Thanks

0 S.K. Huang over 6 years ago in reply to Ravikiran HV

Intellectual 270 points

Dear Sir,

We had DM388 MP Production with IPNC_RDK 3.8 for our customer.

We have the plan to upgrade new SDK for kernel 4.4.

After using these images, I boot from SD card.

I got this error.

-------------------------------------

U-Boot SPL 2016.05-00004-g63acf8c-dirty (Feb 13 2017 - 17:24:46)

Trying to boot from MMC2

-------------------------------------

It stops at MLO(spl) stage and don't jump to u-boot.img.

Even if I run "make sysall", the result is the same.

1. sudo ./mksd-ti81xx.sh /dev/sdb /home/dm388/ti/ipnc_rdk-3.9.0/Source/ipnc_rdk/binaries/DM388/sd/MLO /home/dm388/ti/ipnc_rdk-3.9.0/Source/ipnc_rdk/binaries/DM388/sd/u-boot.img /home/dm388/ti/ipnc_rdk-3.9.0/Source/ipnc_rdk/binaries/DM388/sd/dm38x-csk.dtb /home/dm388/ti/ipnc_rdk-3.9.0/Source/ipnc_rdk/binaries/DM388/sd/uImage /home/dm388/ti/ipnc_rdk-3.9.0/Source/ipnc_rdk/binaries/DM388/sd/filesystem_DM388_FULL_FEATURE.tar.gz

2. I trace the source code.

I can see the final debug message -> puts("[sk]check point 1\n");

If I add "goto OK1", I CAN NOT see any debug string in the tera term. It's very strange.

void board_init_r(gd_t *dummy1, ulong dummy2)
{

....

#ifdef CONFIG_SPL_BOARD_INIT
puts("[sk] spl_board_init check\n");
   spl_board_init();
#endif

puts("[sk] board_boot_order\n");
   board_boot_order(spl_boot_list);
   for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(spl_boot_list) &&
           spl_boot_list[i] != BOOT_DEVICE_NONE; i++) {
       announce_boot_device(spl_boot_list[i]);
       puts("[sk]check point 1\n");
       goto OK1;
       if (!spl_load_image(spl_boot_list[i]))
       {
           puts("[sk] break status\n");
           break;
       }
   }
puts("[sk]checking\n");
   if (i == ARRAY_SIZE(spl_boot_list) ||
        spl_boot_list[i] == BOOT_DEVICE_NONE) {
       puts("SPL: failed to boot from all boot devices\n");
       hang();
   }
OK1:
puts("[sk] spl_image.os\n");
   switch (spl_image.os) {
   case IH_OS_U_BOOT:
       debug("Jumping to U-Boot\n");
       puts("Jumping to U-Boot\n");
       break;
#ifdef CONFIG_SPL_OS_BOOT
   case IH_OS_LINUX:

.....

}

I think it's at MLO(spl) stage and should be no problem to jump u-boot.img.

Do you have any suggestions?

Yours Sincerely,

S.K.

0 Ravikiran HV over 6 years ago in reply to S.K. Huang

Mastermind 8715 points

user4154483,
Please can you create a new thread and post the issue. It will help to track better and other users of forum also can look into the issue to help. :)
Thanks

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