DM365 SD card boot issue, format error, "BLKRRPART: Invalid argument"

read http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/DM3xx_SD_card_boot_and_flashing_program#Troubleshooting #4

Yes I have seen the troubleshooting, no it didn’t help me.

Yes I am doing the “export PATH=$PATH:bin.x86” (1), yes mounting SD card is not consistent, but I can find and mount the SD card without any issues (2-3), I am formatting SD to standard FAT on Linux, not ext2/3 or encry FAT(4). I am not passing the format stage.

1.     bug and hot fix: when working on PC run before work: export PATH=$PATH:bin.x86

2.     Be careful don't damage your hard disk. Format SD card only. Check for available storage devices in file /proc/partitions

3.     sometimes format fails at first time because of conflict with automatic mount. Just try a second time.

4.     format device, not partition: /dev/sdc and /dev/mmcblk0 - storage devices, /dev/sdc1 and /dev/mmcblk0p1 - partitions on this devices

5.     With certain SD cards the tool gets stuck at some random address during flashing/booting from SD card. Try another card.

Just a clarification: The format comes ok on Linux(FAT) but formatting for DM365 is the issue. 

sudo ./dm3xx_sd_boot format /dev/sdf1

Thank you Constantine

I am making progress as now I am not only formatted the SD card but also made the boot file.

But now there is another issue, when I put the SD card in the DM365 leopard board I am not getting anything on the terminal, I do see the LED1 and LED2 turned on.

I suspect there is something else not right, could you please let me know if you see any issues?

I assumed the default is DM365 and didn’t change the configuration file.

[root@tools ~]# export PATH=$PATH:./bin.x86

[root@tools ~]# cd /media/809A-4AF4/dm3xx_sd_boot-6.1

[root@tools dm3xx_sd_boot-6.1]# cd dm3xx_sd_boot-6.1

[root@tools dm3xx_sd_boot-6.1]# mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /media/sdcard

mount: /dev/sda1 already mounted or /media/sdcard busy

mount: according to mtab, /dev/sdd1 is already mounted on /media/sdcard

[root@tools dm3xx_sd_boot-6.1]# sudo ./dm3xx_sd_boot format /dev/sdd

cleaning SD card

1000+0 records in

1000+0 records out

1024000 bytes (1.0 MB) copied, 0.760558 s, 1.3 MB/s

Disk /dev/sdd: 1015 cylinders, 63 heads, 62 sectors/track

sfdisk: ERROR: sector 0 does not have an msdos signature

/dev/sdd: 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/sdd1 * 0+ 40- 41- 41012+ b W95 FAT32

/dev/sdd2 * 40+ 1935- 1896- 1941282 83 Linux

/dev/sdd3 0 - 0 0 0 Empty

/dev/sdd4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty

Successfully wrote the new partition table

Re-reading the partition table ...

mkfs.vfat 3.0.1 (23 Nov 2008)

0+0 records in

0+0 records out

0 bytes (0 B) copied, 0.000200782 s, 0.0 kB/s

0+1 records in

0+1 records out

19 bytes (19 B) copied, 0.000127263 s, 149 kB/s

total 15000

-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 15360000 2011-09-28 01:47 dm3xx.dat

SD card /dev/sdd formatted

10000+0 records in

10000+0 records out

10240000 bytes (10 MB) copied, 1.09671 s, 9.3 MB/s

dm3xx_boot_data_addr=0x0a2000

Image dm3xx_boot_rec:a1aced00 100 3c 511 0 0 0 0 a2000

10000+0 records in

10000+0 records out

10240000 bytes (10 MB) copied, 1.15872 s, 8.8 MB/s

dm3xx boot record is written

Please reinsert the card for auto mounting or mount it manually

[root@tools dm3xx_sd_boot-6.1]# make install

./dm3xx_sd_boot data

copying data to

Writing /media/dm3xx-boot/dm3xx.dat

000200-006724, 25892 bytes <- sdcard_flash/sdcard_flash_DM36x.bin

008000-008200, 512 bytes <- test pattern 1 2 3

010000-015000, 20480 bytes <- original/UBL_DM36x_NAND.bin

020000-045308, 152328 bytes <- original/u-boot-1.3.4-dm365_evm.bin

060000-2547c8, 2049992 bytes <- original/uImage-dm365

400000-6740c7, 2572487 bytes <- original/ramdisk.gz

syncing

DM355 boot data copied in data file /media/dm3xx-boot/dm3xx.dat on

Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on

/dev/sdd1 40365 15001 25365 38% /media/dm3xx-boot

[root@tools dm3xx_sd_boot-6.1]#