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martinonorcas
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2 years ago
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I am getting nowhere fast booting reference Linux on Cyclone V SOC dev board

I need help debugging booting my new Cyclone V SoC Dev board. (Rev E1) I have been banging my head against this wall for a few days and I need help to debug it. I tried booting the setup out of the...
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    martinonorcas
    2 years ago

    Hi Aik Eu,

    Thank you for all your help.

    Your quick responses helped me focis on my issue.

    So in working to validate the SD card I wrote, I found my problem.

    I had been writing to the wrong device with my dd commands.

    I was writing to a sub-partition of the device rather than the primary device:

    /dev/disk7s1 instead of the correct device: /dev/disk7

    I can now boot Linux and move on!

    Thanks again Martin

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aikeu
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2 years ago

Hi Martin,


Are you following this document for booting?

https://www.rocketboards.org/foswiki/Documentation/CycloneVSoCGSRD


I am trying to summarize on what I know from the document, do refer back to the document if require further details.


Get the sd card image referring to the section(Creating SD Card on Windows) from the above document.

Remember to rename the downloaded file gsrd-console-image-cyclone5.wic to sdimage.img then only use win32diskmanager to write into the sdcard

The necessary file to boot up the system is only referring to sdimage.img


Do check the physical connection on the board as below so that the board can boot up from SD card:


First, the board jumpers need to be configured as follows:

J5: Open

J6: Short

J7: Short

J9: Open

J13: Short

J16: Open

J26: Short pins 1-2

J27: Short pins 2-3

J28: Short pins 1-2

J29: Short pins 2-3

J30: Short pins 1-2

J31: Open


Then, the board switches need to be configured as follows:

SW1: All OFF

SW2: All OFF

SW3: ON-OFF-ON-OFF-ON-ON

SW4: OFF-OFF-ON-ON


Once the board is properly configured, power on the board and there should be UART booting logs showing in the terminal.

You will be using 115200 as your terminal baudrate. Do check the USB serial port for UART is selected correctly for your terminal.


Thanks.

Regards,

Aik Eu




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    martinonorcas
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    2 years ago

    I repeated that process for the nth time including the new DD of SD card and still nothing.

    Using exactly those parameters in your response. Note your parameters and the image in the diagram are not easily understood to correspond.

    SW3 and SW4 dffer in the photo from the words.

    But I have tried all combos.

    My latest photo attached shows the config as per the words reading left to right

    SW1: All OFF

    SW2: All OFF

    SW3: ON-OFF-ON-OFF-ON-ON

    SW4: OFF-OFF-ON-ON

    I am on Linux so I use dd to program the SD card.

    Again:

    No output on the serial port.

    I have been around this loop many times.

    I need some kind of additional diagnostic.

    Is there any programming of the FPGA or the CPLD needed? Or that should be verified?

    Can I verify the SD card programming?

    Compare a HEX dump maybe?

    Somehow trace the ARM boot?

    Again I need a way to move forward without simply repeating the steps including the various with differences shown on the Internet and included with the board front Intel,

    The setup recommended by Intel and delivered in the unopened box is not the same as described on Roceketboards.org

    Any assistance is much appreciated.

    As I said a simple video of the booting of a board that works showing the light sequence and TX/RF toggling would help.

    Martin

    ps. The Intel site says this board comes with a year of Quartus Pro licenses. How do I get that?

    pps. Which is the latest version of Quartus I can run to program the FPGA? I am unable to install device support for this device up front with Quartus 23.2