[Macchiato] SD problems

[Marcin Wojtas]

Hi Steve,

I tried two different SD cards, both worked, so maybe I was lucky. Anyway,
are you sure, you have MBR partition table + the first (boot) partition
starts at 4096?

2017-06-14 18:49 GMT+02:00 Steve McIntyre <steve at einval.com>:

> Hey guys,
>
> I'm sstill stumped here with getting my Macchiato to boot off SD. I've
> tried lots of different cards and can't find anything that will
> work. The *only* card that I've seen work is the unlabelled/unknown
> card that Ard brought with him to Cambridge last month. Nothing else
> even comes close to booting on my board, which makes it really
> difficult to get much further with doing anything on my machine.
>
> If it wasn't for this *one* SD card working fine first time, I'd be
> tempted to say my machine had a hardware fault. I've tried multiple
> Sandisk cards from 1GB up to 64GB, Samsung 32G, Toshiba 32G, Kingston
> 8G and up, Intenso 4G. I'm waiting on another Kingston 4G card to land
> tomorrow, to try that too. It's very frustrating. :-(
>
> I'm assuming failure logs are not interesting. I can supply them if
> desired - just ask.
>

Yes, please show the logs.

Best regards,
Marcin


>
> In the meantime, I can see that there's a fallback option to boot via
> UART. Is there any documentation about what's needed to use that
> anywhere?
>
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