[Elphel-support] camera bricked after re-flashing to elphel353-8.0.9 :(

[Ákos Maróy]

Andrey,

So, I went through the process of compiling the whole elphel source
tree, based on the latest 8.0.9 source tarball. While the compilation
fails (see my previous e-email), at least now I'm at a point where I
have the netboot-related files, like etraxfsboot.

My plan is to flash the camera using netboot, with the 8.0.9 image file
downloadable from sourceforge.

Unfortunately this doesn't seem to work. I'm following the steps here:

http://wiki.elphel.com/index.php?title=Netboot_firmware_upgrade

and I get stuck at the "Starting boot..." location:

# netboot -mac 000E64081973 -ip 192.168.0.9 -nfs 192.168.0.20:/nfs
-cmd update -d eth0 -nfs_dir /nfs
Using internal boot loader: INTERNAL_NW - Network boot (default).
Using internal boot loader: INTERNAL2 - Level2 boot.
Starting boot...


I'm entering netboot mode by plugging the network cable in and out of
the camera several times. at the end, the network cable remains in, and
the yellow led lights up constantly, while the green led flashes
vigorously for a while. but, the netboot process stays at the same
level. then the green light goes out. (the behaviour of the green light
is the very same, if no netboot script is running)

the images files I have from the image353-8.0.9.tar.gz tarball at /nfs,
which is also accessible at 192.168.0.20:/nfs

what am I doing wrong?


Akos

PS: this is getting quite annoying. I've re-compile half the universe by
now, including a custom gcc 4.2, the whole elphel distro, etc. just to
be able to flash a binary image - but to no avail :(