Control: severity 836925 important On 2016-09-07, Rick Thomas wrote: > I installed the new u-boot using the procedure in > /usr/share/doc/u-boot/README.Debian > > The newly installed u-boot loaded and executed after a linux "reboot" > command. > > Unfortunatels it destroyed the u-boot environment, so it tried to boot > using the default env. This failed to boot Linux.
What version of u-boot were you upgrading from? The u-boot env values were changed somewhere around 2016.01, possibly: https://bugs.debian.org/781874 Or has the u-boot environment configuration changed again since then? > I went to Martin's page, > https://www.cyrius.com/debian/kirkwood/sheevaplug/install/ , and > followed the instructions there to restore the environment for booting > from the SD card. I also had to restore the "ethaddr" u-boot > environment variable. > After having restored the u-boot environment, I issued a "reset", and > it then happily booted as expected. > I'd recommend that /usr/share/doc/u-boot/README.Debian give a warning > about needing to restore the u-boot environment, at least for the > sheevaplug. Or NEWS.Debian, given that it can actually cause a failure to boot. If you could propose some text describing the issue, when it is encountered, and what to do about it, that would be helpful; the details of the issue are a bit unclear to me to start writing anything. live well, vagrant
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