Re: BananPi BPI-P2 zero (H3 chip) fails to boot

[Stephan <stephanwib%googlemail.com@localhost>]

Hello,

replying to myself:

When I was working on narrowing down this issue, when I copied the
u-boot binary again from another PC, the board suddenly loaded U-Boot
and the NetBSD kernel.

I suspected an issue with the PC I was using first, but when I
repeated the steps, it kept working.

There are some issues remaining however, I will report them shortly.




Am Mo., 11. März 2024 um 13:16 Uhr schrieb Stephan <stephanwib%googlemail.com@localhost>:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have ordered a BananaPi BPI-P2 zero board and I received the version
> with an Allwinner H3 chip, not the H2+ one. I followed the steps at
>
> https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/evbarm/allwinner/
>
> to install NetBSD 9.3 armv7, but unfortunately the board does not
> boot. I used the u-boot binary from sysutils/u-boot-bananapi-p2-zero.
>
> U-boot prints three lines over the serial UART, the version, memory
> size and that it is unable to boot from MMC1.
>
> Suspect is the H3 chip variant - perhaps the u-boot file is only
> suited for the H2+ chip? Apparently there is also just a DTB for the
> H2+ model at
>
> https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-9.3/evbarm-earmv7hf/binary/kernel/
>
> I have also tried some u-boot files for other boards that have the H3
> chip and many print some more lines; however all complain that there
> is no bootable device. (The same SD card works with Armbian).
>
> Does this sound reasonable? Where do these DTB and u-boot binaries
> come from? Anything I could do or try?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Stephan