I had to reflash a board as the network configuration was a little wrong and it wouldn’t connect to any networks. It would start up occasionally with lights on the RJ45 on the carrier board, but then they would go out and the connected device would just say cable unplugged.
After flashing it the ethernet port has the orange light permanently on dim. If I put it in recovery mode and run the recovery-linux.sh script it does connect to the internet and is able to see available images online with the vnc viewer, with the lights working just fine.
I thought there might be lingering settings so I cleared the flash before getting a fresh image and it still ended up in the same state.
Does recovery mode have a different Ethernet interface? Could the issue be hardware?
Board: Colibri IMX8QXP 2GB with a Viola Rev 1.2 Carrier Board
Toradex Easy Installer is stripped down version of Linux with a GUI application . So It’s not a HW issue. Something wrong with your SW settings. Could you please provide details about Image you are using and its revision (For example Linux Reference Minimal Mainline based kernel Wayland/XWayland graphics back-end supported but not included 5.7.2+build.21 )
I would, but I’m afraid the only way I have of accessing the board is through Ethernet (which isn’t working). I have tried serial comms and a USB to Ethernet adapter, but was unable to get any information output it.
Currently the network config is directly to a switch with a router on the network, but I’ve also tried connecting directly to my linux computer and received nothing from the board when I ran tcpdump.
Yes, those are the ones I used to try and get serial comms, but we use the serial interface so I am pretty sure it is disabled and that is why we get no output. Does this change with a new image flashed onto it?
The Viola carrier board does not have RS232 interface. You should use UART TTL to USB adapter instead of USB to RS232 converter. Please follow this article.
Sorry for the delay,
I bought a new serial cable and tried it out. On boot I only managed to get the symbol �
through the serial connection.
I tried putting it into recovery mode and the serial comms work perfectly (see below). I then flashed it with the same image as it’s using in recovery and I get the same result (�).
U-Boot 2018.03-toradex_imx_v2018.03_4.14.98_2.3.0_bringup+g9393e0c9bd (May 19 2020 - 21:36:48 +0000)
CPU: Freescale i.MX8QXP revB A35 at 1200 MHz at 47C
DRAM: 2 GiB
PMIC: device id: 0x40, revision id: 0x31, emrev 0, prog id fff
MMC: FSL_SDHC: 0, FSL_SDHC: 1
Loading Environment from MMC... OK
In: serial
Out: serial
Err: serial
Model: Toradex Colibri iMX8 QuadXPlus 2GB Wi-Fi / BT IT V1.0B, Serial# 06614389
BuildInfo:
- SCFW b929edfe, SECO-FW f449a0d2, IMX-MKIMAGE d7f9440d, ATF bb209a0
- U-Boot 2018.03-toradex_imx_v2018.03_4.14.98_2.3.0_bringup+g9393e0c9bd
Detect USB boot. Will enter fastboot mode!
Net: eth0: ethernet@5b040000 [PRIME]
Fastboot: Normal
Boot from USB for mfgtools
Use default environment for mfgtools
Run bootcmd_mfg: fastboot 0
Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0
Detect USB boot. Will enter fastboot mode!
Starting download of 2246 bytes
downloading of 2246 bytes finished
Detect USB boot. Will enter fastboot mode!
Starting download of 37580888 bytes
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downloading of 37580888 bytes finished
## Executing script at 82e00000
## Loading kernel from FIT Image at 83000000 ...
Using 'config@freescale_fsl-imx8qxp-colibri-eval-v3.dtb' configuration
Trying 'kernel@1' kernel subimage
Description: Linux kernel
Type: Kernel Image
Compression: gzip compressed
Data Start: 0x8300010c
Data Size: 6689667 Bytes = 6.4 MiB
Architecture: AArch64
OS: Linux
Load Address: 0x80280000
Entry Point: 0x80280000
Hash algo: sha1
Hash value: e603347e704540f0cba4ebd55770bf5f8f862fbc
Verifying Hash Integrity ... sha1+ OK
## Loading ramdisk from FIT Image at 83000000 ...
Using 'config@freescale_fsl-imx8qxp-colibri-eval-v3.dtb' configuration
Trying 'ramdisk@1' ramdisk subimage
Description: tezi-initramfs
Type: RAMDisk Image
Compression: uncompressed
Data Start: 0x836c86bc
Data Size: 30466048 Bytes = 29.1 MiB
Architecture: AArch64
OS: Linux
Load Address: 0xa0000000
Entry Point: unavailable
Hash algo: sha1
Hash value: d00ffa50e8c8da4bae941b4d5a774a6f7b25fb28
Verifying Hash Integrity ... sha1+ OK
Loading ramdisk from 0x836c86bc to 0xa0000000
## Loading fdt from FIT Image at 83000000 ...
Using 'config@freescale_fsl-imx8qxp-colibri-eval-v3.dtb' configuration
Trying 'fdt@freescale_fsl-imx8qxp-colibri-eval-v3.dtb' fdt subimage
Description: Flattened Device Tree blob
Type: Flat Device Tree
Compression: uncompressed
Data Start: 0x836615b0
Data Size: 84042 Bytes = 82.1 KiB
Architecture: AArch64
Hash algo: sha1
Hash value: 5075a816962b48701bdee4ded29c65b247579a06
Verifying Hash Integrity ... sha1+ OK
Booting using the fdt blob at 0x836615b0
Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
Loading Device Tree to 00000000fd663000, end 00000000fd67a849 ... OK
/dma-controller@591F0000, 64852
/dma-controller@599F0000, 65816
/dma-controller@5a1f0000, 63900
/dma-controller@5a1f0000, 63900
Starting kernel ...
[ 0.352311] dmi: Firmware registration failed.
[ 0.776174] Can't support > 32 bit dma.
Running /etc/rc.local...
TDX_VER_ID="Colibri-iMX8X_ToradexEasyInstaller_2.0b7-20210415"
Starting udev
System time was Tue May 9 10:02:13 UTC 2023.
Setting the System Clock using the Hardware Clock as reference...
System Clock set. System local time is now Tue May 9 10:02:13 UTC 2023.
Welcome to the Toradex Easy Installer
This is a Linux based installer for Toradex modules. Currently, the installer
does not have a serial console interface. You can use the Toradex Easy Installer
via any of the available display interfaces using USB mouse/keyboard or via a
network connection using VNC. Use:
# ip addr show eth0
to display the Ethernet IP address or use USB RNDIS at IP 192.168.11.1.
Check our documentation at:
https://developer.toradex.com/software/toradex-easy-installer
It seems like it doesn’t actually boot outside of recovery, so I’m guessing when it’s flashed somethings not pointing to the right location? I have tried this on a different board with a different laptop which has ended in the same result.
I see from your boot log that you are trying to boot an image (probably your custom image?) from a USB. Could you please try the following:
Put the module into recovery and flash Toradex Easy Installer. Please use the latest version of the easy installer ( 5.7.2+build.14) for your colibri iMX8X module which you can download here.
Install one of our Yocto reference images (I recommend the BSP 6) which you will find listed on the feeds.
Sure, please let me know how that goes. If you would still like to troubleshoot the issue on the Viola board, I would propose an online meeting for about half an hour. Please let me know if you’d like that.
