After getting my Ubuntu Linux virtual machine running on VirtualBox, I am able to get the serial message via minicom.
The boot process takes minutes to occur from switch power on to on-screen graphics.
The messages indicate many errors during boot.
I believe they indicate a bad NAND flash.
Is there a corrrection I can make or will I need to replace my eval board?
Early boot messaging:
Starting X-loader on MMC
Reading boot sector
218976 Bytes Read from MMC
Starting OS Bootloader from MMC...
Starting OS Bootloader...
U-Boot 2009.11 (Jan 22 2011 - 01:45:10)
OMAP34xx/35xx-GP ES1.0, CPU-OPP2 L3-165MHz
AM3517EVM Board + LPDDR/NAND
I2C: ready
DRAM: 256 MB
NAND: 512 MiB
err_loc=2509
err_loc=-1144
err_loc=-1311
err_loc=-2375
err_loc=3924
err_loc=3686
err_loc=959
err_loc=-3521
err_loc=3535
err_loc=2218
err_loc=-1854
err_loc=-1959
err_loc=1141
err_loc=559
err_loc=-860
err_loc=-2114
*** Warning - bad CRC or NAND, using default environment
