Boot AM1808 using Ethernet

Taqi Mustafa

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Can i boot Linux on AM1808 attached on a custom board NAND flash using Ethernet cable ?

over 11 years ago

0 Titusrathinaraj Stalin over 11 years ago

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Hi Taqi,

Can i boot Linux on AM1808 attached on a custom board NAND flash using Ethernet cable ?

Ethernet boot is not possible on AM18x but you can load linux image and filesystem through ethernet,

Supported booting types are , SPI , NAND, NOR, SD.

The bootloaders should be laid on any one of the following SD/NAND/NOR/SPi and we can use the ethernet for loading kernel and filesystem.

You can flash bootloaders through serial port.

http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/Serial_Boot_and_Flash_Loading_Utility_for_OMAP-L138

0 Taqi Mustafa over 11 years ago in reply to Titusrathinaraj Stalin

Intellectual 890 points

I just want to learn how to Load images on NAND Flash memory using Ethernet cable. Can i make the connection of device and my Host PC running on Win XP ? If yes, then can i check the status of device connection using Ethernet using CCS4 ?

0 Titusrathinaraj Stalin over 11 years ago in reply to Taqi Mustafa

TI__Guru** 116100 points

Hi,

Have you got u-boot shell on your custom board?

If yes,

u-boot# tftpboot uImage

This is the command to load the kernel image from host(linux) machine to RAM addr of device.

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Boot AM1808 using Ethernet