Hi Queenie,
On Monday 11 June 2007, Queenie wrote:
Iam a newbie in this field. I have a customed target board having IXP425. This board has been working fine with Redboot. I do not have the working source code for Redboot but only the bin file which works fine. I now want to customise the u-boot and make u-boot the bootloader for this board.
I have downloaded u-boot-1.1.6. Also I have downloaded the npe microcode from intel website (IPL_ixp400NpeLibrary-2_4). The tool chain I have downloaded is arm-linux-tools-20061213.tar.gz I have added the toolchain in my $PATH (.bash_profile file) I complied my u-boot for IXDP425 by giving the command "make ixdp425_config" and the "make all"
Yes, but if I understand you correctly, then you don't have the Intel IXDP425 board, but a custom specific board. Correct? I assume that there are some differences to the Intel board. What are those differences? You have to *port* U-Boot to your specific hardware.
It complied sucessfully and gave me a u-boot.bin and u-boot.srec file.
I used this u-boot.bin file and loaded it into my target board flash using an ICE. after this is accomplished, I restarted the board and connected the console of my target board so that i could observe the bootloader prompt on the hyperterminal. I see nothin on the console (hyperterminal) I have connect it with baud rate 115200, 8 data bits, parity bits none, 1 stop bit and flow control as none. I even tried with flow control as hardware.
Please advise where i could be going wrong and how i should proceed.
As mentioned above, using a binary compiled for a different board will in most cases not work.
Best regards, Stefan
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