<div dir="ltr">OK, i ordered the ftdi cable. My favorite solution is the first solution to flash it with usb stick. Is there a windows tool and a tutorial/wiki post/blog how to work with that cable?<div><br></div><div><div>How do i know whether that problem is a known issue for the minnowboard max and will be fixed. Whom can i address that issue? Is that a known firmware issue or is that an special problem of my board?</div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2014-11-20 17:41 GMT+01:00 Peter Ogden <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:peter.j.ogden@gmail.com" target="_blank">peter.j.ogden@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>I don't know enough about the underlying HDMI issue, but since you are able to boot into linux successfully then you should be able to update the firmware these two possible ways:<br><br></div>1. Put the firmware on a usb stick, boot up with only this stick and the FTDI cable installed, connect to the EFI serial console and issue the firmware update command.<br><br></div>2. Use an SPI programmer to directly flash the prom.<br></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 8:33 AM, Bastian Wassermann <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bastian.wassermann@gmail.com" target="_blank">bastian.wassermann@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">So i don't think this is an hardware issue because hdmi is working in linux. So it should be a firmware problem. So if this will be patched in firmware,I could make a firmware update with an ftdi cable and everything will be right? </p>
<div class="gmail_quote">Am 20.11.2014 17:06 schrieb "Peter Ogden" <<a href="mailto:peter.j.ogden@gmail.com" target="_blank">peter.j.ogden@gmail.com</a>>:<div><div><br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">As a workaround, You can get to the EFI shell using a FTDI cable.</p>
<p dir="ltr">That should allow you to do the efi firmware update, but you still wont have access to the bios screen.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 20, 2014 8:03 AM, "Bastian Wassermann" <<a href="mailto:bastian.wassermann@gmail.com" target="_blank">bastian.wassermann@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi Martin,<div><br></div><div>saddly when there is nothing plugin in but the hdmi and the power cable, the board stays black. It is the same if i plugin a boot stick. But when i enter my microsd card with an installed linux mint, the board stays totally black for about 30 seconds and than the tv recognizes the hdmi input signal and displays the green mint logo in the central.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2014-11-20 14:41 GMT+01:00 Krause Martin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Martin.Krause@tq-group.com" target="_blank">Martin.Krause@tq-group.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">what happens if you boot without any boot device connected? The board should boot into EFI shell then.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">Best regards,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b>Im Auftrag von </b>Bastian Wassermann<br>
<b>Gesendet:</b> Donnerstag, 20. November 2014 14:10<br>
<b>An:</b> MinnowBoard Development and Community Discussion<br>
<b>Betreff:</b> [MinnowBoard] Minnowboard Max no longer booting to UEFI Shell<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I have the same problem like <a href="http://minnowboard.57273.x6.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=user_nodes&user=55" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#551a8b;background:#eeeeee">Bryan
Smith</span></b></a> in the post <a href="http://minnowboard.57273.x6.nabble.com/MinnowBoard-Minnowboard-Max-no-longer-booting-to-UEFI-Shell-td229.html" target="_blank">http://minnowboard.57273.x6.nabble.com/MinnowBoard-Minnowboard-Max-no-longer-booting-to-UEFI-Shell-td229.html</a>
when i am booting my minnowboard i cant see anything until the linux mint logo appears. So it is not possible to boot in the UEFI and boot/install another linux distribution.<u></u><u></u></p>
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that this is a firmware / HDMI Issue with some displays. I have the minnowboard from the last batch send out 11/11/14 by mouser. I did a firmware updated and installed linux mint 17.<u></u><u></u></p>
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