Provisioning Apalis TK1 with Toradex Easy Installer

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I planing to provisioning a bunch of Apalis TK1s. Most of them are fresh modules so the should boot directly into TEZI.

But for some modules that already have an image flashed onto them, I am trying to find a mechanism to flash a freshed new image with as little interaction as possible.

Looking around I found this. It seems I can run TEZI from u-boot using the command run distro_bootcmd.

I tried this, I made a FAT32 USB Drive and copied boot.scr and tezi.itb into it. I also added image I wanted to be flashed in https://docs.toradex.com/104854-apalis-tk1-linux-lxde-image-beta-tezi.tar. Unzipped into USB root.

I booted the TK1 into u-boot and ran run distro_bootcmd.

I got the following output.

Scanning usb 0:1...
e1000: no NVM
e1000: e1000#0: ERROR: Valid Link not detected: -8
missing environment variable: pxeuuid
missing environment variable: bootfile
Retrieving file: pxelinux.cfg/01-00-14-2d-2c-6e-5b
e1000: e1000#0: ERROR: Valid Link not detected: -8
missing environment variable: bootfile
Retrieving file: pxelinux.cfg/C0A80A02

What am I doing wrong?

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That should really work just fine (see here). I suspect that you have an illegally formatted/partitioned USB stick. Can you display its contents from within U-Boot?

U-Boot 2016.11-2.8.3+gaca804c (Jun 26 2018 - 18:24:15 +0000)

SoC: tegra124
Reset cause: POR
DRAM:  2 GiB
MMC:   Tegra SD/MMC: 0, Tegra SD/MMC: 1, Tegra SD/MMC: 2
In:    serial
Out:   serial
Err:   serial
Model: Toradex Apalis TK1 2GB V1.2A, Serial# 02997331
Net:   No ethernet found.
Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0 
Apalis TK1 # usb start
starting USB...
USB0:   USB EHCI 1.10
USB1:   USB EHCI 1.10
USB2:   USB EHCI 1.10
scanning bus 0 for devices... 1 USB Device(s) found
scanning bus 1 for devices... 1 USB Device(s) found
scanning bus 2 for devices... 2 USB Device(s) found
Apalis TK1 # ls usb 0:1
      518   boot.scr 
 22961836   tezi.itb 

2 file(s), 0 dir(s)

Apalis TK1 #
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OK. Found the issue. My USB Drive had an extra partition at the beginning which was being scanned instead of the one with the boot.scr and tezi.itb.

Thanks!

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You are very welcome.