Guru server plus bricked uboot installer won't work

[tomaszkubacki]

Hello,

It seems i've bricked uboot on my guru server plus.
So try to reflash uboot with installer
What i've done is:

1. i downloaded installer from: http://www.plugcomputer.org/index.php/us/resources/downloads?func=select&id=16

2. and image from:
http://code.google.com/p/guruplug/downloads/detail?name=Guruplug%20server%20PLUS%20-%20uboot.plug2.bin.zip&can=2&q=

3. run installer with command:
sudo ./runme.sh uboot.plug2.bin

4. I get error from the bottom of this post

I'm sure JTAG isn't bricked because i can connect with it to another (not bricked plug)

Any clue what's wrong ?

----------------------------------------------------
 ****     Preparing environment variables file ...
 ****   Burning uboot and environment variables ... This will take few minutes ...
Open On-Chip Debugger 0.2.0-in-development (2009-05-17-10:32) svn:1800M


BUGS? Read http://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/openocd/trunk/BUGS


$URL: http://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/openocd/trunk/src/openocd.c $
2000 kHz
dcc downloads are enabled
Error: JTAG communication failure, check connection, JTAG interface, target power etc.
Error: trying to validate configured JTAG chain anyway...
Error: Could not validate JTAG scan chain, IR mismatch, scan returned 0x00. tap=feroceon.cpu pos=0 expected 0x1 got 0
Warn : Could not validate JTAG chain, continuing anyway...
Warn : value captured during scan didn't pass the requested check:
Warn : captured: 0x00 check_value: 0x01 check_mask: 0x0F
Warn : no telnet port specified, using default port 4444
Warn : no gdb port specified, using default port 3333
Warn : no tcl port specified, using default port 6666
Error: unknown EmbeddedICE version (comms ctrl: 0x00000000)
Error: unexpected Feroceon EICE version signature
Error: timed out while waiting for target halted
Runtime error, file "./openocd/./board/guruplug.cfg", line 24:
   
 ****   openocd FAILED
 ****   Is the mini USB cable connected?
 ****   Try powering down, then replugging the Sheevaplug

[Takigama]

Not that it helps, i know, but im stuck with the exact same problem....

[kurt2000]

Hi,

I have experiencer similar problems, when trying to run the installer on a virtual machine.

For me it helped to reboot the machine, somehow something chrashed the driver so the script would not run, event though i could use minicom to se the output.

Wkr.

[geka]

Try a small workaround :
Reset the plug and quickly launch you openocd process.

It may help, sometimes.

[Takigama]

yeah, i've tried various combinations of things to get it to flash... including timing related stuff and various different machines with no real success.

Either my plug is bricked or the jtag board is bricked. I dont get anything at all on the serial console though (though i used to and the installer used to work).

I suspect my plug is most definitely toast, or the flimsy little wires connecting the jtag board to the plug are broke in some way.

[Takigama]

God is a very humerous man...

my plug's been stuck in its current state for a week with that same problem. just now i poked the jtag wires with a small screw driver, re-ran the installer and it installed ok and my plug is no longer a brick... just after i posted my last post.

-- update: interestingly, if my plug is sitting on its feet, it fails. If my plug is sitting on its side (with the sd card side down) it works... thats just not a good thing really, definitely sounds like a wire contact issue though.

[tomaszkubacki]

I'm still stucked but i think it worked for you because of reset button pressed. (plug lies on the reset button)

[tomaszkubacki]

ok i give up. Globalscale does not think it's worth to respond to my emails. If someone in Poland wants bricked guru plug i can send it  for free.

[Dammuozz]

Hi...do you have the jtag board too??

I'm interested for the board and the guruplug too...

dammuozz

[tomaszkubacki]

I don't have JTAG now. I borrowed it from someone, but had to give it back. If u r still interested. reach me at tomasz(dot)kubacki(at)gmail(dot)com