Hi,

I've burned the last maverick update on two sd card.
Each time, i've got two ext2 partitions and my smartbook refuse to boot from them.
If i copy the data from the firt partition and format it to fat, the sb boot but with a black screen. Nothing happen.
Tried for 20min without success. OS wasn't updated.
I've downloaded another time the update with wget but the problem is the same.

Thanks

Do you have any idea what U-Boot version you have on the system as it stands?

No.
I don't have the white ribbon for the jtag adapter.

Maybe you should try to update the U-boot first, there's a separate 4MB image here:

http://www.powerdeveloper.org/platforms/efikamx/linux

If you misunderstood the documentation, you may want to followup this bug:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/efikamx/+bug/693762

Cheers

The uboot update doesn't boot on my smartbook :(

Your help is greatly appreciated

Please, make sure you read the PDF here:

http://www.powerdeveloper.org/asset/by-id/98

The uboot update does not produce any output on the screen, only LED feedback. Check the above link for more details on the color codes you should expect.

The power led go white only.
But ther in no boot.scr file on the uboot updater which is apparently only for TO2 and TO3 smarttop.
My SB boot always as if there wasn't any sd card inside.
I've checked the SD (with uboot and maverick) and i can mount all the partitions.
I there an u-boot updater specificaly for the smartbook?

The U-Boot SD card has been updated to image both boards. Unfortunately some of the Smartbook production would not boot from ext2 partitions so this U-Boot update is a required first step for these systems.

http://www.powerdeveloper.org/platforms/efikamx/linux

Due to a little quirk we didn't solve, the update operation on Smarttops is as follows:

[*] Boot SD card in Smarttop
[*] LED will go green and the system will flash the firmware
[*] LED will blink blue (dim, then bright) 3 times to count down the U-Boot timeout (you may insert an SD card before or during this time).
[*] It will then blink the red LED to denote hard disk or SD card activity for the boot process

At this point it will *hang* because it is not booting anything (boot.scr is written to power it off but power off doesn't seem to do anything). It is perfectly safe to turn the machine off using the power button (hold down for 4 seconds) or removing AC while the LED is solid blue.

It is not possible to boot the Smarttop again from this SD card, however it will work in any other Smarttop or Smartbook (no damage is caused but it's designed to bail out).

On Smartbook:

[*] Boot Smartbook from SD card
[*] After about 5 seconds, Caps Lock LED will blink 3 times for the U-Boot timeout, then shut down automatically. This SD card will now always just shut down the system.

Thanks Matt.

That's worked.

Good to know! That problem was highly frustrating to fix :]