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Subject: SerialBlaster and the 7260 128MB (was Re: [ts-7000] Boot from SDHC cards?)
From: "William R. Otte" <>
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 18:16:24 -0600
Hi folks -

On Jan 17, 2008, at 2:02 PM, William R. Otte wrote:

Hi folks -

I have been playing around with my new 7260s, and I have converted one of them to use the fastboot method described here:

http://www.embeddedarm.com/epc/fastboot.htm

with quit a bit of success with a 2GB SD card, and I am quite happy with this functionality. I have, however, hit a small stumbling block - I can't seem to get it to work with high capacity (>= 4GB) SDHC cards.

So it seems the answer here is a hard and fast 'no.' This leaves me with a board that I need to revert back to standard flash based booting.

I have found the serial_blaster and several posts describing its use with the 7260 - however, the compiled redboot.bin thats included with this distribution is no good for my board, as I have 128MB flash, and the included redboot doesn't know how to address that so it bails.

When I instead flash with the redboot binary provided by TS (ts7260- nand2k-128-kernel), and modify serial_blaster to accept the slightly larger image, the bootloader starts successfully, however, starts booting linux much faster than I could possibly fire up minicom to send the interrupt sequence, so that I could perform the rest of the procedure.

Does anybody have any suggestions as to how I might overcome this?

Thanks,
/-Will

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