[MinnowBoard] USB and firmware

John Hawley john.hawley at intel.com
Tue Apr 19 16:44:44 UTC 2016


SD Card or SATA should work

On 4/18/2016 2:11 PM, Moses George wrote:
> 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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