[MinnowBoard] Minnowboard Max no longer booting to UEFI Shell

[Bryan Smith]

Hey Dave,

I actually started looking at a flyswatter already as I figured that this
was the case. Just wanted to report the issue.

Thanks,

Bryan
> Bryan,
>
> this is the second report from an early adopter with this issue. it
> appears to
> be a corruption of the UEFI firmware and appears to be software related.
> we are
> looking into it now. the only way to fix this is to reflash the UEFI
> firmware
> via the SPI header.
>
> Dave
>
>
>> On July 27, 2014 at 2:22 PM Bryan Smith <bryan at fossetcon.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hello Everyone,
>>
>> I booted the Max a few times and interacted with the shell. I then
>> booted
>> 2 Distros while the max was connected to a TV and everything seemed
>> fine.
>>
>> Shortly afterwards while attempting to boot into another distro via usb,
>> I
>> noticed that the tv screen failed to show the UEFI prompt.
>>
>> I tried rebooting several times afterwards and there was no video output
>> and two blue LED's remained lit.
>>
>> After connecting to the console I observed this:
>>
>> When the board receives power only 1 led is lit. The console shows
>> SecStartup then both leds light and two messages follow and nothing else
>> happens.
>>
>> >>>>SecStartup
>> >>>>MemoryInit Done
>> >>>>BdsEntry
>>
>> I left the board connected in this state for about 6 hours and nothing
>> else happened. I tried disconnecting all peripherals, only connecting
>> usb,
>> sd and ethernet together and singularly.
>>
>> I found that if I hold down SW1 for approx 5 seconds J1 led turns off
>> but
>> nothing happens after that.
>>
>> Has anyone else observed this behavior? Seems similar to this:
>> http://lists.elinux.org/pipermail/elinux-minnowboard/Week-of-Mon-20140721/000201.html
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Bryan
>>
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