[MinnowBoard] Minnowboard Turbot doesn't see USB keyboard most of the time... [Update to the [Update]]

Rick Thomas rbthomas at pobox.com
Thu May 3 21:12:24 UTC 2018


Hi Mark,

The OS I run is Debian 9.4 (“Stretch”) on an SD card.  I installed it in the “normal” way (i.e. from a USB stick to which I “dd”ed the installer .iso as downloaded from the Debian mirror) on one of the infrequent occasions that the keyboard was recognized by the BIOS.  I installed it on the board in question, not a reference board.

I’ve tried un/re-plugging the keyboard from the USB2 slot on the board.  It is not recognized before or after the re-plugging.

Is there a way to reset the bios to “factory” settings?  I’m wondering if maybe I’ve managed to clobber some setting in the config flash in all my experiments…

Thanks!
Rick


On May 3, 2018, at 11:58 AM, Van Der Pol, MarkX <markx.van.der.pol at intel.com> wrote:

> Sounds very strange - having ruled out keyboard malfunction, power issues, and the fact it works if booting to the OS, on two separate boards, there is not much left...
> 
> The BIOS, if it can't find an OS to load, will show a UEFI shell prompt. It won't tell you the version, but at least it confirms the BIOS is happy.
> 
> Also, if the BIOS is up in the shell prompt, it will enumerate a USB  keyboard if you plug it in at that point. Or if you switch ports for the keyboard.
> 
> Is the OS you run installed on that board, or from a reference board?
> 
> Is it running from the micro SD card, a USB Flash drive, a SATA disk, or something plugged into the high speed interface on a lure?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> |\/|ark.
> 
> Mark van der Pol
> Firmware Engineer,
> Open Hardware Team,
> Open Source Technology Center
> Intel
> Markx.van.der.pol at intel.com
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: elinux-MinnowBoard [mailto:elinux-minnowboard-bounces at lists.elinux.org] On Behalf Of Rick Thomas
> Sent: Wednesday, May 2, 2018 11:59 PM
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> Subject: Re: [MinnowBoard] Minnowboard Turbot doesn't see USB keyboard most of the time... [Update to the [Update]]
> 
> 
> Well... I finally got the quad (with the 4amp power supply) to work with the "reboot from a running Linux" trick.
> 
> At least for that board, the BIOS menu says the following:
> 
> Minnowboard Turbot D0 PLATFORM
> Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU E3845 @1.91 Ghz
> MNW2MAX1.X64.0095.R01.1703281124
> 
> Which, I presume, means that the BIOS is Rev 0095.R01 compiled at 11:24 AM on March 28, 2017.  So I'm two revs behind the leading edge.
> 
> The dual (with the 2amp power supply) is still refusing to yield its secrets.
> 
> Sometime this weekend, I hope to have time to reflash the BIOS with Rev 0097 as mentioned in Brian's post.
> 
> Rick
> 
> On May 2, 2018, at 7:09 PM, Rick Thomas <rbthomas at pobox.com> wrote:
> 
>> It gets worse...  Now, even the "reboot from a working CF card" trick isn't working for me.  I can't get it to display the boot menu in the BIOS at all.  When booting, the keyboard is simply ignored, no matter what the history is.
>> 
>> So, I can't find out what the firmware rev is...  It requires a working keyboard to find out!
>> 
>> I'm at my wits end!
>> Rick
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