On Sep 12, 2016, at 2:30 PM, Vagrant Cascadian <vagr...@aikidev.net> wrote:
> 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. >> >> Unfortunately 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? I’m pretty sure it was “U-Boot 2016.01-rc3+dfsg1-3 (Jan 02 2016 - 23:19:11 +0000)". That’s the version on its twin. I’m pretty sure I upgraded them both at the same time with the same version. In case it matters, the /boot partition is on the SDcard. > > 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? It seems likely that the environment configuration changed between 2016.01-rc3+dfsg1-3 and 2016.09~rc2+dfsg1-1. Would it be possible for you to check that? > 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. Yeah, you’re right. NEWS.Debian would be the right place. > 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. If you can verify exactly when the environment config changed, I’ll try to describe what I did to fix the problem. > live well, > vagrant
