<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12px"><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1421347937758_3400"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1421347937758_3410">Great, thanks John! Was definitely a head scratcher for me... good to know there's an easy fix.</span></div><div></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1421347937758_3401"> </div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> On Thursday, January 15, 2015 10:29 AM, John Hawley <john.hawley@intel.com> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container">On 01/15/2015 10:19 AM, Driv3l wrote:<div class="yqt6340619382" id="yqtfd53171"><br clear="none">> I purchased a Minnowboard max (A2 revision) at the end of December, and<br clear="none">> ran into an interesting problem which you guys may or may not be aware of.<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> The board came with the default 0.71 firmware. I installed Debian 7.7<br clear="none">> via a USB Key onto an SD card and everything was fine. <br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> I recently upgraded the firmware to 0.73 and ran into a problem. With<br clear="none">> the latest firmware, Debian would not see the SD card at all and the<br clear="none">> boot would fail (could not find the boot partition / UUID). Looks like<br clear="none">> it didn't recognize the SD card controller. I tried re-installing Debian<br clear="none">> from scratch (this time using Debian 7.8), but still no go. The<br clear="none">> installer could not see the SD card.<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> I downgraded the firmware back to 0.71, and everything worked again...<br clear="none">> the Debian installer worked fine, and booting and running was normal.<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> I then upgraded back to 0.73 and tried the latest Debian 8 Jessie<br clear="none">> release. This worked with 0.73.<br clear="none">> <br clear="none">> So it seems you can't use Debian releases earlier than 8 with the 0.73<br clear="none">> firmware. I don't know is this is a known issue or if there is some<br clear="none">> workaround that I might not be aware of (or if there is some specific<br clear="none">> hardware issue with my board that might be causing it). Would be useful<br clear="none">> if this were noted on the Wiki on the distros page to help anyone else<br clear="none">> who may run into this problem.</div><br clear="none"><br clear="none">There was a change between 0.71 and 0.73 to better support Windows,<br clear="none">basically "lpss & scc devices mode"<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://elinux.org/Minnowboard:MaxBios#LPSS_.26_SCC_Configuration" target="_blank">http://elinux.org/Minnowboard:MaxBios#LPSS_.26_SCC_Configuration </a>changed<br clear="none">default from PCI to ACPI.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">There are 2 ways to fix this on the newer firmware:<br clear="none"><br clear="none">1) Switch the firmware setting mentioned above and reboot<br clear="none">2) add sdhci sdhci-pci sdhci-acpi to the initrd (so it should work in<br clear="none">both cases)<br clear="none"><br clear="none">- John<br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">elinux-MinnowBoard mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:elinux-MinnowBoard@lists.elinux.org" href="mailto:elinux-MinnowBoard@lists.elinux.org">elinux-MinnowBoard@lists.elinux.org</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://lists.elinux.org/mailman/listinfo/elinux-minnowboard" target="_blank">http://lists.elinux.org/mailman/listinfo/elinux-minnowboard</a><div class="yqt6340619382" id="yqtfd05487"><br clear="none"></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>