Re: [Gumstix-users] U-Boot does not load ...

[Manfred J. <man...@re...>]

I feared as much, but thanks all the same...
nG
Manfred

Dave Hylands schrieb:
> Hi Manfred,
>
> On Nov 20, 2007 5:37 AM, Manfred John <man...@re...> wrote:
>   
>> I've got a problem with my verdex board where the u-boot got destroyed
>> by accident (there was a powerdown while writing to the envvars).
>> I found in the docwiki:
>> "-- if you unrecoverably write to your flash, and it's no longer
>> erasable or writable by u-boot, we can provide a tool which will
>> generally recover the flash, but it involves completely wiping all the
>> data off the gumstix and starting over from scratch. Please contact
>> customer support if you need this tool."
>>
>> Now I'm wondering what kind of tool this is ... ?
>>     
>
> Well, in theory you can buy a JTAG and use some software to rewrite
> the flash. There are some files for the connex on the JTAG page:
> http://docswiki.gumstix.com/JTAG
>
> But the corresponding files for the verdex were never posted.
>
> So even though gumstix now sells the JTAG hardware for the verdex,
> they've never posted the support files to go with it. So I think that
> the only option right now is to use the reflash service.