Unable to update barebox on imx6ul

[mihaitaivascu]

Hello,

    I am not able to update the new barebox image on the im6xul target:

barebox@Phytec phyCORE-i.MX6 Ultra Lite SOM:/ barebox_update -y barebox-phytec-phycore-imx6ul-512mb.img
Image Metadata:
build: #2 Fri Jun 8 03:05:46 PDT 2018
release: 2016.11.0
parameter: memsize=512
imx-bbu-nand-fcb: Uncorrectable error at block 0
imx-bbu-nand-fcb: Cannot read fcb
imx-bbu-nand-fcb: Uncorrectable error at block 0
imx-bbu-nand-fcb: Cannot read fcb
imx-bbu-nand-fcb: Uncorrectable error at block 0
imx-bbu-nand-fcb: Cannot read fcb
imx-bbu-nand-fcb: Uncorrectable error at block 0
imx-bbu-nand-fcb: Cannot read fcb
imx-bbu-nand-fcb: Not enough space for update
barebox_update: No space left on device

    Any ideas what can I do to investigate?

Thanks,

      Mihaita  

[gusarambula]

Hello Mihaita,

I’m not familiar with this PhyCore board, however, the documentation for it would be a good place to start.

On the documentation (link below) if looks like the right command for NAND is barebox_update ‐t nand. I’m not sure if you need to always indicate this as it looks like it is trying to reach the NAND anyways but perhaps it would be good to give it a try.

http://www.phytec.de/fileadmin/user_upload/images/content/1.Products/SOMs/phyCORE-i.MX6/L-814e_2.pdf

Perhaps contacting Phytec support could also help.

Regards,

[mihaitaivascu]

Hello,

    Thanks for you response. I tried that:

barebox@Phytec phyCORE-i.MX6 Ultra Lite SOM:/ barebox_update -t nand /mnt/mmc/barebox.bin
Image Metadata:
build: #2 Fri Jun 8 03:05:46 PDT 2018
release: 2016.11.0
parameter: memsize=512
imx-bbu-nand-fcb: Uncorrectable error at block 0
imx-bbu-nand-fcb: Cannot read fcb
imx-bbu-nand-fcb: Uncorrectable error at block 0
imx-bbu-nand-fcb: Cannot read fcb
imx-bbu-nand-fcb: Uncorrectable error at block 0
imx-bbu-nand-fcb: Cannot read fcb
imx-bbu-nand-fcb: Uncorrectable error at block 0
imx-bbu-nand-fcb: Cannot read fcb
imx-bbu-nand-fcb: Not enough space for update
barebox_update: No space left on device

No idea what it complains about not enough space. I try to do the update from a SD card

Regards,

     Mihaita

[mihaitaivascu]

I will close this topic. I had to increase size of barebox partition on NAND as for safety reasons barebox_update is storing 2 copies of barebox image(old and new) at the same time until the update process is completed