Fire it up for the first time

As already mentioned the one A4 page of instructions means either that it's very easy to get it going or that I will need a couple of days of searching.

I plugged the MMC card in, connected the serial to some PC powered it up and pressed while I saw the u-boot countdown.


The serial settings are: 115200,8,n,1 no flow control as written on the A4 page.

Texas Instruments X-Loader 1.4.2 (Feb 19 2009 - 12:01:24)
Reading boot sector
Loading u-boot.bin from mmc


U-Boot 2009.01-dirty (Feb 19 2009 - 12:23:21)

I2C:   ready
OMAP3530-GP rev 2, CPU-OPP2 L3-165MHz
OMAP3 Beagle board + LPDDR/NAND
DRAM:  256 MB
NAND:  256 MiB
Using default environment

MUSB: using high speed
In:    serial usbtty
Out:   serial usbtty
Err:   serial usbtty
Board revision C
Serial #487c00030000000004013f7904018017
Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0

That's not too bad for a start, although I guess I don't like the fact that a patched version of U-boot is flashed on the board (and I have no idea what this patch is).

If you connect at this point the DVI cable to some monitor you should see a beagle on the screen.

I followed the instructions from the A4 page:

mmcinit

fatload mmc 0 80000000 uimage

setenv bootargs 'console=ttyS2,115200n8 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rw rootdelay=1'

bootm 80000000

and a linux kernel boots:

## Booting kernel from Legacy Image at 80000000 ...
   Image Name:   Angstrom/2.6.28/beagleboard
   Image Type:   ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
   Data Size:    2706168 Bytes =  2.6 MB
   Load Address: 80008000
   Entry Point:  80008000
   Verifying Checksum ... OK
   Loading Kernel Image ... OK
OK

Starting kernel ...

Uncompressing Linux.................................................................................................................
............................................................. done, booting the kernel.
Linux version 2.6.28-omap1 (koen@dominion) (gcc version 4.3.1 (GCC) ) #1 Tue Mar 24 18:57:27 CET 2009
CPU: ARMv7 Processor [411fc083] revision 3 (ARMv7), cr=10c5387f
CPU: VIPT nonaliasing data cache, VIPT nonaliasing instruction cache
Machine: OMAP3 Beagle Board
Memory policy: ECC disabled, Data cache writeback
OMAP3430 ES3.0
SRAM: Mapped pa 0x40200000 to va 0xd7000000 size: 0x100000
Reserving 15728640 bytes SDRAM for VRAM
Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on.  Total pages: 65024
Kernel command line: console=ttyS2,115200n8 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rw rootdelay=1
Clocking rate (Crystal/DPLL/ARM core): 26.0/332/500 MHz
GPMC revision 5.0
IRQ: Found an INTC at 0xd8200000 (revision 4.0) with 96 interrupts
Total of 96 interrupts on 1 active controller
OMAP34xx GPIO hardware version 2.5
PID hash table entries: 1024 (order: 10, 4096 bytes)
OMAP clockevent source: GPTIMER12 at 32768 Hz
Console: colour dummy device 80x30
Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Memory: 128MB 128MB = 256MB total
Memory: 238592KB available (5008K code, 437K data, 196K init)
Calibrating delay loop... 480.01 BogoMIPS (lpj=1875968)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
CPU: Testing write buffer coherency: ok
net_namespace: 532 bytes
regulator: core version 0.5
NET: Registered protocol family 16
Found NAND on CS0
Registering NAND on CS0
OMAP DMA hardware revision 4.0
USB: No board-specific platform config found
OMAP DSS rev 2.0
OMAP DISPC rev 3.0
OMAP VENC rev 2
OMAP DSI rev 1.0
i2c_omap i2c_omap.1: bus 1 rev3.12 at 2600 kHz
twl4030: PIH (irq 7) chaining IRQs 368..375
twl4030: power (irq 373) chaining IRQs 376..383
twl4030: gpio (irq 368) chaining IRQs 384..401
i2c_omap i2c_omap.3: bus 3 rev3.12 at 100 kHz
SCSI subsystem initialized
twl4030_usb twl4030_usb: Initialized TWL4030 USB module
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
usbcore: registered new device driver usb
musb_hdrc: version 6.0, musb-dma, otg (peripheral+host), debug=0
musb_hdrc: USB OTG mode controller at d80ab000 using DMA, IRQ 92
regulator: VMMC1: 1850 <--> 3150 mV normal standby
regulator: VDAC: 1800 mV normal standby
regulator: VUSB1V5: 1500 mV normal standby
regulator: VUSB1V8: 1800 mV normal standby
regulator: VUSB3V1: 3100 mV normal standby
regulator: VSIM: 1800 <--> 3000 mV normal standby
Bluetooth: Core ver 2.13
NET: Registered protocol family 31
Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
cfg80211: Using static regulatory domain info
cfg80211: Regulatory domain: US
        (start_freq - end_freq @ bandwidth), (max_antenna_gain, max_eirp)
        (2402000 KHz - 2472000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (600 mBi, 2700 mBm)
        (5170000 KHz - 5190000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (600 mBi, 2300 mBm)
        (5190000 KHz - 5210000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (600 mBi, 2300 mBm)
        (5210000 KHz - 5230000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (600 mBi, 2300 mBm)
        (5230000 KHz - 5330000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (600 mBi, 2300 mBm)
        (5735000 KHz - 5835000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (600 mBi, 3000 mBm)
cfg80211: Calling CRDA for country: US
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 8192)
TCP reno registered
NET: Registered protocol family 1
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
JFFS2 version 2.2. (NAND) (SUMMARY)  B) 2001-2006 Red Hat, Inc.
msgmni has been set to 466
alg: No test for stdrng (krng)
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered (default)
Serial: 8250/16550 driver4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
serial8250.0: ttyS0 at MMIO 0x4806a000 (irq = 72) is a ST16654
serial8250.0: ttyS1 at MMIO 0x4806c000 (irq = 73) is a ST16654
serial8250.0: ttyS2 at MMIO 0x49020000 (irq = 74) is a ST16654
console [ttyS2] enabled
brd: module loaded
loop: module loaded
usbcore: registered new interface driver catc
catc: v2.8:CATC EL1210A NetMate USB Ethernet driver
usbcore: registered new interface driver kaweth
pegasus: v0.6.14 (2006/09/27), Pegasus/Pegasus II USB Ethernet driver
usbcore: registered new interface driver pegasus
rtl8150: v0.6.2 (2004/08/27):rtl8150 based usb-ethernet driver
usbcore: registered new interface driver rtl8150
usbcore: registered new interface driver asix
usbcore: registered new interface driver cdc_ether
usbcore: registered new interface driver dm9601
usbcore: registered new interface driver smsc95xx
usbcore: registered new interface driver gl620a
usbcore: registered new interface driver net1080
usbcore: registered new interface driver plusb
usbcore: registered new interface driver rndis_host
usbcore: registered new interface driver cdc_subset
Broadcom 43xx driver loaded [ Features: L, Firmware-ID: FW13 ]
usbcore: registered new interface driver zd1211rw
usbcore: registered new interface driver rndis_wlan
usbcore: registered new interface driver zd1201
usbcore: registered new interface driver usb8xxx
usbcore: registered new interface driver rtl8187
usbcore: registered new interface driver rt2500usb
usbcore: registered new interface driver rt73usb
usbcore: registered new interface driver p54usb
i2c /dev entries driver
input: triton2-pwrbutton as /class/input/input0
triton2 power button driver initialized
Driver 'sd' needs updating - please use bus_type methods
Driver 'sr' needs updating - please use bus_type methods
omap2-nand driver initializing
NAND device: Manufacturer ID: 0x2c, Chip ID: 0xba (Micron NAND 256MiB 1,8V 16-bit)
cmdlinepart partition parsing not available
Creating 5 MTD partitions on "omap2-nand":
0x00000000-0x00080000 : "X-Loader"
0x00080000-0x00260000 : "U-Boot"
0x00260000-0x00280000 : "U-Boot Env"
0x00280000-0x00680000 : "Kernel"
0x00680000-0x10000000 : "File System"
ehci_hcd: USB 2.0 'Enhanced' Host Controller (EHCI) Driver
ehci-omap ehci-omap.0: OMAP-EHCI Host Controller
ehci-omap ehci-omap.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
ehci-omap ehci-omap.0: irq 77, io mem 0x48064800
ehci-omap ehci-omap.0: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00
usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 3 ports detected
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
g_cdc gadget: using random self ethernet address
g_cdc gadget: using random host ethernet address
usb0: MAC fe:4d:41:ab:d2:65
usb0: HOST MAC 7e:00:e6:9a:5b:3d
g_cdc gadget: CDC Composite Gadget, version: King Kamehameha Day 2008
g_cdc gadget: g_cdc ready
musb_hdrc musb_hdrc: MUSB HDRC host driver
musb_hdrc musb_hdrc: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 1 port detected
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
input: gpio-keys as /class/input/input1
twl4030_rtc twl4030_rtc: rtc core: registered twl4030_rtc as rtc0
OMAP Watchdog Timer Rev 0x31: initial timeout 60 sec
Bluetooth: HCI USB driver ver 2.10
usbcore: registered new interface driver hci_usb
Bluetooth: Broadcom Blutonium firmware driver ver 1.2
usbcore: registered new interface driver bcm203x
Bluetooth: Digianswer Bluetooth USB driver ver 0.10
usbcore: registered new interface driver bpa10x
Bluetooth: Generic Bluetooth SDIO driver ver 0.1
mmci-omap-hs mmci-omap-hs.0: Failed to get debounce clock
Registered led device: beagleboard::usr0
Registered led device: beagleboard::usr1
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
usbhid: v2.6:USB HID core driver
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.18rc3.
usbcore: registered new interface driver snd-usb-audio
ASoC version 0.13.2
OMAP3 Beagle SoC init
TWL4030 Audio Codec init
asoc: twl4030 <-> omap-mcbsp-dai-(link_id) mapping ok
ALSA device list:
  #0: omap3beagle (twl4030)
oprofile: using arm/armv7
TCP cubic registered
NET: Registered protocol family 17
NET: Registered protocol family 15
Bluetooth: L2CAP ver 2.11
Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
Bluetooth: SCO (Voice Link) ver 0.6
Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized
Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.10
Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3
Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast
Bluetooth: HIDP (Human Interface Emulation) ver 1.2
RPC: Registered udp transport module.
RPC: Registered tcp transport module.
ieee80211: 802.11 data/management/control stack, git-1.1.13
ieee80211: Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Intel Corporation 
ThumbEE CPU extension supported.
Power Management for TI OMAP3.
Spurious irq 95: 0xffffffdf, please flush posted write for irq 83
Spurious irq 95: 0xffffffdf, please flush posted write for irq 83
SmartReflex driver initialized
Disabling unused clock "sr2_fck"
Disabling unused clock "sr1_fck"
Disabling unused clock "mcbsp_fck"
Disabling unused clock "mcbsp_fck"
Disabling unused clock "mcbsp_fck"
Disabling unused clock "mcbsp_ick"
Disabling unused clock "mcbsp_ick"
Disabling unused clock "mcbsp_ick"
Disabling unused clock "gpt2_ick"
Disabling unused clock "gpt3_ick"
Disabling unused clock "gpt4_ick"
Disabling unused clock "gpt5_ick"
Disabling unused clock "gpt6_ick"
Disabling unused clock "gpt7_ick"
Disabling unused clock "gpt8_ick"
Disabling unused clock "gpt9_ick"
Disabling unused clock "wdt3_ick"
Disabling unused clock "wdt3_fck"
Disabling unused clock "gpio2_dbck"
Disabling unused clock "gpio3_dbck"
Disabling unused clock "gpio4_dbck"
Disabling unused clock "gpio5_dbck"
Disabling unused clock "gpio6_dbck"
Disabling unused clock "gpt9_fck"
Disabling unused clock "gpt8_fck"
Disabling unused clock "gpt7_fck"
Disabling unused clock "gpt6_fck"
Disabling unused clock "gpt5_fck"
Disabling unused clock "gpt4_fck"
Disabling unused clock "gpt3_fck"
Disabling unused clock "gpt2_fck"
Disabling unused clock "gpt1_ick"
Disabling unused clock "wdt1_ick"
Disabling unused clock "wdt2_ick"
Disabling unused clock "wdt2_fck"
Disabling unused clock "gpio1_dbck"
Disabling unused clock "gpt1_fck"
Disabling unused clock "cam_ick"
Disabling unused clock "cam_mclk"
Disabling unused clock "des1_ick"
Disabling unused clock "sha11_ick"
Disabling unused clock "rng_ick"
Disabling unused clock "aes1_ick"
Disabling unused clock "ssi_ick"
Disabling unused clock "mailboxes_ick"
Disabling unused clock "mcbsp_ick"
Disabling unused clock "mcbsp_ick"
Disabling unused clock "gpt10_ick"
Disabling unused clock "gpt11_ick"
Disabling unused clock "i2c_ick"
Disabling unused clock "mcspi_ick"
Disabling unused clock "mcspi_ick"
Disabling unused clock "mcspi_ick"
Disabling unused clock "mcspi_ick"
Disabling unused clock "hdq_ick"
Disabling unused clock "mspro_ick"
Disabling unused clock "des2_ick"
Disabling unused clock "sha12_ick"
Disabling unused clock "aes2_ick"
Disabling unused clock "icr_ick"
Disabling unused clock "pka_ick"
Disabling unused clock "ssi_ssr_fck"
Disabling unused clock "hdq_fck"
Disabling unused clock "mcspi_fck"
Disabling unused clock "mcspi_fck"
Disabling unused clock "mcspi_fck"
Disabling unused clock "mcspi_fck"
Disabling unused clock "mcbsp_fck"
Disabling unused clock "mcbsp_fck"
Disabling unused clock "i2c_fck"
Disabling unused clock "mspro_fck"
Disabling unused clock "gpt11_fck"
Disabling unused clock "gpt10_fck"
Disabling unused clock "dpll4_m6x2_ck"
Disabling unused clock "dpll3_m3x2_ck"
Disabling unused clock "sys_clkout1"
VFP support v0.3: implementor 41 architecture 3 part 30 variant c rev 1
registered taskstats version 1
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x30
clock: clksel_round_rate_div: dpll4_m4_ck target_rate 48000000
clock: new_div = 9, new_rate = 48000000
twl4030_rtc twl4030_rtc: setting system clock to 2009-05-04 02:36:09 UTC (1241404569)
Waiting 1sec before mounting root device...
mmc0: new high speed SD card at address 59f8
mmcblk0: mmc0:59f8 SD02G 1.83 GiB
 mmcblk0: p1 p2
mmcblk0: p2 size 3036285 limited to end of disk
kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is recommended
EXT3 FS on mmcblk0p2, internal journal
EXT3-fs: recovery complete.
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem).
Freeing init memory: 196K
INIT: version 2.86 booting
Starting udevudevd version 124 started

Remounting root file system...
uncorrectable error : <3>end_request: I/O error, dev mtdblock0, sector 0
Buffer I/O error on device mtdblock0, logical block 0
uncorrectable error : <3>end_request: I/O error, dev mtdblock0, sector 8
Buffer I/O error on device mtdblock0, logical block 1
uncorrectable error : <3>end_request: I/O error, dev mtdblock0, sector 16
Buffer I/O error on device mtdblock0, logical block 2
uncorrectable error : <3>end_request: I/O error, dev mtdblock0, sector 24
Buffer I/O error on device mtdblock0, logical block 3
uncorrectable error : <3>end_request: I/O error, dev mtdblock0, sector 0
Buffer I/O error on device mtdblock0, logical block 0
ALSA: Restoring mixer settings...
Configuring network interfaces... No state is present for card omap3beagle
/usr/sbin/alsactl: parse:1620: Unable to open file '/usr/share/alsa/init/00main': No such file or directory
ifup: interface eth0 already configured
done.
Starting portmap daemon: portmap.
net.ipv4.conf.default.rp_filter = 1
net.ipv4.conf.all.rp_filter = 1
INIT: Entering runlevel: 5
Configuring leds:
  beagleboard::usr0: heartbeat
  beagleboard::usr1: mmc0
Starting Dropbear SSH server: modprobe: FATAL: Could not open '/lib/modules/2.6.28-omap1/kernel/net/ipv6/ipv6.ko': No such file or d
irectory

modprobe: FATAL: Could not open '/lib/modules/2.6.28-omap1/kernel/net/ipv6/ipv6.ko': No such file or directory

dropbear.
Starting advanced power management daemon: No APM support in kernel
(failed.)
Removing stale PID file /var/run/dbus/pid.
Starting system message bus: Unknown username "polkituser" in message bus configuration file
dbus.
Starting Hardware abstraction layer hald
Starting syslogd/klogd: done
 * Starting Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Daemon: avahi-daemon
Process 1491 died: No such process; trying to remove PID file. (/var/run/avahi-daemon//pid)
[ ok ]
Starting Connection Manager
Starting Bluetooth subsystem: hcid hid2hci.
Running ntpdate to synchronize clockError : Temporary failure in name resolution
.
Starting GPE display manager: gpe-dm

.-------.
|       |                  .-.
|   |   |-----.-----.-----.| |   .----..-----.-----.
|       |     | __  |  ---'| '--.|  .-'|     |     |
|   |   |  |  |     |---  ||  --'|  |  |  '  | | | |
'---'---'--'--'--.  |-----''----''--'  '-----'-'-'-'
                -'  |
                '---'

The Angstrom Distribution beagleboard ttyS2

Angstrom 2009.X-test-20090305 beagleboard ttyS2

beagleboard login: root
root@beagleboard:~#

There are some things I'm not impressed with:

• uncorrectable error : <3>end_request: I/O error, dev mtdblock0, sector 0
  Buffer I/O error on device mtdblock0, logical block 0
• FATAL: Could not open '/lib/modules/2.6.28-omap1/kernel/net/ipv6/ipv6.ko': No such file or directory
• the beagle is gone from my display and it's black although there seems to be some X stuff running:

root@beagleboard:~# ps -ef
UID        PID  PPID  C STIME TTY          TIME CMD
root         1     0  0 02:36 ?        00:00:01 init [5]
root         2     0  0 02:36 ?        00:00:00 [kthreadd]
root         3     2  0 02:36 ?        00:00:00 [ksoftirqd/0]
root         4     2  0 02:36 ?        00:00:00 [watchdog/0]
root         5     2  0 02:36 ?        00:00:00 [events/0]
root         6     2  0 02:36 ?        00:00:00 [khelper]
root       182     2  0 02:36 ?        00:00:00 [kblockd/0]
root       187     2  0 02:36 ?        00:00:00 [kseriod]
root       194     2  0 02:36 ?        00:00:00 [twl4030-irqchip]
root       195     2  0 02:36 ?        00:00:00 [twl4030-irq]
root       213     2  0 02:36 ?        00:00:00 [ksuspend_usbd]
root       219     2  0 02:36 ?        00:00:00 [khubd]
root       226     2  0 02:36 ?        00:00:00 [kmmcd]
root       239     2  0 02:36 ?        00:00:00 [btaddconn]
root       240     2  0 02:36 ?        00:00:00 [btdelconn]
root       256     2  0 02:36 ?        00:00:00 [kondemand/0]
root       266     2  0 02:36 ?        00:00:00 [pdflush]
root       267     2  0 02:36 ?        00:00:00 [pdflush]
root       268     2  0 02:36 ?        00:00:00 [kswapd0]
root       269     2  0 02:36 ?        00:00:00 [aio/0]
root       270     2  0 02:36 ?        00:00:00 [nfsiod]
root       414     2  0 02:36 ?        00:00:00 [pegasus]
root       427     2  0 02:36 ?        00:00:00 [zd1211rw]
root       447     2  0 02:36 ?        00:00:00 [mtdblockd]
root       499     2  0 02:36 ?        00:00:00 [kpsmoused]
root       521     2  0 02:36 ?        00:00:00 [hid_compat]
root       557     2  0 02:36 ?        00:00:00 [krfcommd]
root       559     2  0 02:36 ?        00:00:00 [rpciod/0]
root       569     2  0 02:36 ?        00:00:00 [mmcqd]
root       574     2  0 02:36 ?        00:00:00 [kjournald]
root       626     1  0 02:36 ?        00:00:00 /sbin/udevd -d
daemon    1397     1  0 02:36 ?        00:00:00 /sbin/portmap
root      1441     1  0 02:36 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/dropbear -r /etc/dropb
46        1452     1  0 02:36 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system
47        1457     1  0 02:36 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/hald
root      1458  1457  0 02:36 ?        00:00:00 hald-runner
root      1463  1458  0 02:36 ?        00:00:00 /usr/libexec/hald-addon-omap-bac
root      1464  1458  0 02:36 ?        00:00:00 hald-addon-input: Listening on /
root      1477     1  0 02:36 ?        00:00:00 /sbin/syslogd -n -C64 -m 20
root      1479     1  0 02:36 ?        00:00:00 /sbin/klogd -n
avahi     1487     1  0 02:36 ?        00:00:00 avahi-daemon: running [beagleboa
root      1499     1  0 02:36 ?        00:00:00 connmand
root      1509     1  0 02:36 ?        00:00:00 /sbin/hcid -s -f /etc/bluetooth/
root      1524     1  0 02:36 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/gpe-dm
root      1526  1524  2 02:36 tty3     00:00:04 Xorg -br -pn :0 -noreset
root      1529  1524  0 02:36 ?        00:00:00 run-parts /etc/X11/Xinit.d
root      1531     1  0 02:36 ttyS2    00:00:00 -sh
root      1532     1  0 02:36 tty1     00:00:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty1
root      1570     1  0 02:36 ?        00:00:00 x11vnc -q -bg -display :0 -forev
root      1606  1529  1 02:36 ?        00:00:04 /usr/bin/gpe-login
root      1611     1  0 02:36 ?        00:00:00 keylaunch -f /etc/X11/gpe-login.
root      1612     1  0 02:36 ?        00:00:00 ipaq-sleep -u 60 -o 30 -n
root      1619  1606  0 02:36 ?        00:00:00 xkbd -xid
root      1670  1531  0 02:40 ttyS2    00:00:00 ps -ef
root@beagleboard:~#

We'll see how to resolve some of those issues.