Beagle rom 2013-04-02

The Beagle ROM build dated 2013-04-02 fails to find !Boot on startup on my ARMini. It stalls with a “waiting for boot drive to be ready” error which times out leading to the Desktop error, ‘File &.!BOOT’ not found. *. shows the default drive is an SD card in the ARMini’s front SD slot, the Boot Pen is to be found at SCSI::3. Exit the desktop and do :-

*drive 3
!Boot

and Boot runs runs.

*co. SCSIFSDrive 3

Restoring the Boot drive to 0 and removing the card reader and all other devices to ensure the Boot Pen really is drive SCSI::0 still fails, the icon is slow to appear in the icon bar but when it has appeared its !Boot can be run from the supervisor prompt.

The previously in use rom dated 2013-02-01 works perfectly.

Have you save your cmos after changing and use the new one to boot?

Have you save your cmos after changing and use the new one to boot?

The ARMini has a CMOS widget, I tried removing it and using a saved CMOS file on the SD card, it did not solve the problem.

What has worked is to plug the Boot Pen directly into one of the four USB sockets mounted on the BeagleBoard itself, usually on the ARMini the Boot Pen is plugged into a powered hub connected to the Beagle’s mini-USB.

Have you used a fresh saved cmos, after you changed your configure?
They are many reasons possible. My ARMini/BIK Prototype is booting from HD. I will try a penboot later this day.
It is possible that Jeffreys SDCMOS fixes are the reason. That was the reason I hope a new saved CMOS helps.

I can confirm your problems. HD boot works. my configuration… I have a widget end boot from HD. If I remove the widget, I boot from stick. The latest ROM with his works is the 01 April ROM. The 02 April ROM hangs. I have try the follwing and this works. I boot te xM from HD.Open a taskwindow and do
*co. SCSIFSDrive 2 (the stick is placed there)
Save the cmos via doubleclick to !Boot —> menu to the configure window and save cmos. Copy the cmos from !Boot.Choices to SDFS 0 (open !Boot with [Shift]+doubleclick). Restart boots from Stick after any seconds boot drive waiting time.

there seems to some erraticity in the ordering of the SCSI drives. The ARMini has a built in SD/MS card reader.

I’d expect the ordering to have changed (there was a problem previously where the debug that is printed out during module init caused the timing to be different to a release version, such as 5.20 will be, so all the valuable beta testing wasn’t actually testing the same code sequences) but that it should be consistent. Perhaps the hub is a bit random to enumerate – does putting the boot stick in the lowest numbered hub socket help?
RComp have a handful of ways to resolve this when the time comes to make a ROM generally available, one of which is to vector via SDFS which wasn’t available when the ARMini was first released.

The ARMini has a CMOS widget, I tried removing it and using a saved CMOS file on the SD card, it did not solve the problem.

Eek! Don’t do that. You can easily tell if the settings stuck by power cycling and doing a *STATUS. You should go back and delete that ‘cmos’ file otherwise SDCMOS wont be dormant and there’ll be more than 1 place that your settings are stored (plus corresponding slow down). Really, only the Raspberry Pi (and maybe the Pandora handheld due to physical constraints) should have SDCMOS active in the module listing.

Eek! Don’t do that.

There was a CMOS file already on the SD card, left over from before the widget was fitted or from when the card was created with !SDCreate. The CMOS file was being written to, very slowly, on configuration changes. It has now been deleted and the SDCMOS module is now dormant.

@Sprow
I never read before that I should remove the cmos from the card if I use the widget. I find also nothing in the widget “manual” :-( Long time ago, I mean, you wrote the cmos on the card is ignored if the widget is fitted.

@David

It has now been deleted and the SDCMOS module is now dormant.

Fixed this your problem?

I just have SDCMOS unplugged.