Windows uuu fails with Error: FB: image file not found

[chillinwithscb]

Summary: In Windows, UUU gives "Error: FB: image file not found" when I try install the Linux BSP on the i.MX 8M mini IVKB using instructions:

https://www.nxp.com/document/guide/getting-started-with-the-i-mx-8m-mini-evkb:GS-iMX-8M-Mini-EVK?sec...

Instructions say:

Burn the NXP Linux BSP Image to the Board

> uuu.exe L5.4.70_2.3.0_images_MX8MMEVK.zip

Turn on the board, uuu starts to copy the images to the board.

When it finishes, turn off the board, and consult Boot switch setup to configure the board to boot from SDcard.

Of course I need to use the name of the file I downloaded which is LF_v6.6.23-2.0.0_images_IMX8MMEVK.zip which looks good since it's a similarly formatted name. When I pass that to uuu, it says: 

I assume it means I should enter the command (to run uuu), then turn on the board ... which seems odd, but ok. I don't understand the last sentence about SD card. I thought this was going to burn directly to the device

uuu (Universal Update Utility) for nxp imx chips -- libuuu_1.5.182-0-gda3cd53

Success 0 Failure 0 Wait for Known USB Device Appear...
Error: FB: image file not found
Prep 1/ 0 [=================100%=================] Http Download\Uncompress

Confusing mess of information. It says "image file not found' and then shows some progress output about prep which looks like it completed. Maybe the 'uncompress' indicates that it was unzipping the input file.

But, since it completes so fast, I assume it is failing. What could I be doing wrong?

[jimmyli · Accepted solution]

Hi,

      I also encountered this problem.

      The reason is that uuu.auto or uuu.auto-xxx can't match the firmware provided by prebuilt, you need to modify.

[chillinwithscb]

Thanks. That does seem to be the fix.

IDK what you mean by "uuu.auto or uuu.auto-xxx can't match the firmware provided by prebuilt". I agree that it doesn't match. But I see no reason that it can't. In fact, it should. I opened a ticket at NXP to fix it. ... not that I'm expecting it to get fixed

I actually found the issue myself yesterday. By debugging uuu I determined the name of the file it could not find, and then looked in uuu.auto since I had learned the same day that that is the config file for uuu. Thing is, uuu should report the name of the file it cannot find. It's lazy (of the program and its programmer) to not report the file name.