[MinnowBoard] USB and firmware

[Wei, David]

There are serial UART pins exposed on the MinnowBoard Max, which provides an alternative remote serial console.

 Steps:
(1) Try to connect MinnowBoard Max UART to a host machine with a Serial To USB cable.  
(2) Open a terminal (such as Putty our Tera Term) on the host machine and configure it to use the serial port which connects Max with the host. 
(3) Remove all storage devices from MinnowBoard Max. 
(4)Power on the board, , it should automatically boot to UEFI Shell. Check if you can anything on the terminal you opened.  
(5)Under UEFI Shell environment, type "exit" command to enter UEFI BIOS's Setup interface. 

 
Thanks,
David  

Intel SSG BIOS

-----Original Message-----
From: elinux-MinnowBoard [mailto:elinux-minnowboard-bounces at lists.elinux.org] On Behalf Of Moses George
Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2016 5:11 AM
To: MinnowBoard Development and Community Discussion <elinux-minnowboard at lists.elinux.org>
Subject: Re: [MinnowBoard] USB and firmware

Thanks Cal and John. 

Cal, as for using the startup.nsh, since my usb is not working, I should probably place this on a sd card? And it will automatically be run when the board boots up? I cant use a keyboard. 

Thanks
Moses

> On Apr 18, 2016, at 1:13 PM, Sullivan, California L <california.l.sullivan at intel.com> wrote:
> 
> Another option is to make an image that has the firmware flashing
> utility and use a startup.nsh file to run it.
> 
> ---
> Cal Sullivan
> 
>> On 04/18/2016 10:06 AM, John Hawley wrote:
>> Two ways to go on this one:
>> 
>> 1) Use an FTDI serial console to jump into the firmware and re-enable
>> the USB
>> 
>> 2) Use something like a SPI Hook or a Dediprog and blast the firmware
>> back down into the chip.  Mind, if you have a SPI Hook you also have an
>> FTDI serial device so you should try #1 first.
>> 
>> the MAX doesn't have this, but the Turbot, with a newer firmware does
>> have a jumper that can be used to restore the firmware settings back to
>> defaults.
>> 
>> - John 'Warthog9' Hawley
>> 
>>> On 4/18/2016 8:32 AM, Moses George wrote:
>>> Hello all
>>> 
>>> I have a Minnowboard max and I was having trouble installing xubuntu on a powered usb external hard drive. It was having some issues with the USB (it showed "set sel for device-initiated u1 failed"). I was debugging it and I was messing around with the firmware settings and I ended up disabling USB. Now, I cant get my usb disks working nor can I change settings on the firmware as keyboards are not working.
>>> How do I flash the firmware or modify the USB setting? I did find "SPI hook" online that is supposed to help flash the minnowboard firmware. Any other ideas on how I could re-enable USB? Thanks for your help. 
>>> 
>>> Thanks
>>> Moses
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