LS1046ARDB SD card image not booting

[srogers]

Hi

I have a new LS1046ARDB. The labels on it say:

LS1046ARDB-PB REV E

LSDK 21.08

The factory default QSPI boot works. I want to build an image for it using LSDK 21.08 flexbuild (I have been successfully building and booting images on SDCard for FRWY-LS1046A using flexbuild).

I have tried the following. In all cases the device won't boot from SDCard.

This downloads and writes an image to SDCard, but it won't boot:

./flex-installer -i auto -m ls1046ardb -d /dev/sde -p 4P=128M:2G:8G:-1

I've also tried in an lsdk 21.08 environment: 

flex-builder -m ls1046ardb

flex-installer -r rootfs_lsdk2108_ubuntu_main_arm64.tgz -b boot_LS_arm64_lts_5.10.tgz -f firmware_ls1046ardb_sdboot.img -p 4P=1G:2G:2G:10G -d /dev/sde

Again this successfully builds the image and writes it to SD card, but when I flip the dip switch (SW_RCW_SRC6) it won't boot. 

Can anyone please suggest what I'm missing?

Thanks

[srogers · Accepted solution]

This is resolved. I think my problems were caused by either: 

Not using a fresh bash shell after building lsdk in a different folder, so the envs weren't right

A bad sd-card adapter 

[srogers]

If I build an image using lsdk2108 the 1046ARDB does not start u-boot (no console output). I'm doing the following with a pristine flexbuild_lsdk2108_github.tgz:

flex-builder -m ls1046ardb -j16

flex-installer -b boot_LS_arm64_lts_5.10.tgz -r rootfs_lsdk2108_ubuntu_main_arm64.tgz -f firmware_ls1046ardb_sdboot.img -d /dev/sde

The same build process works for the FRWY-LS1046 using -m ls1046afrwy.

Does anyone know what the issue is?

[srogers]

Following the instructions here LS1046ARDB causing SD cards to become permanent 'read-only' - NXP Community the board now boots from sd card. I wonder if my partitioning options were causing the issue (these worked for FRWY-LS1046)