Mikeinnc,
> So do you mean that this thread - the one we are
> reading now - or either of the two threads you
> mention are experimental? Does this imply that I'm
> unlikely to get a working system without updating
> the u-boot and using the 4.12.1 version?
I meant the working thread does not have the final installation procedure. It will work if you read through and try to boot with stock u-boot. But that's just a lot of works. While the new u-boot and rootfs are available. So really there is no reason not to install new u-boot and create a new rootfs on USB or HDD.
> And have
> you any idea why my USB stick just will *not* boot
> the box, although all the environment variables
> appear to be correctly set? Is that a - v1 -
> u-boot thing? What 'anything different' don't I
> need to do since it doesn't work? Is that,
> perhaps, what you mean by 'experimental'?
>
Not that reason. Stock u-boot is quite primitive. So the error you got:
With new u-boot, we have no problem like that. And it will provide all modern feature such as Ext4, GPT partition,....to name just a few. So I really think it's a waste of effort to stay with stock u-boot.
> So do you mean that this thread - the one we are
> reading now - or either of the two threads you
> mention are experimental? Does this imply that I'm
> unlikely to get a working system without updating
> the u-boot and using the 4.12.1 version?
I meant the working thread does not have the final installation procedure. It will work if you read through and try to boot with stock u-boot. But that's just a lot of works. While the new u-boot and rootfs are available. So really there is no reason not to install new u-boot and create a new rootfs on USB or HDD.
> And have
> you any idea why my USB stick just will *not* boot
> the box, although all the environment variables
> appear to be correctly set? Is that a - v1 -
> u-boot thing? What 'anything different' don't I
> need to do since it doesn't work? Is that,
> perhaps, what you mean by 'experimental'?
>
Not that reason. Stock u-boot is quite primitive. So the error you got:
Re)start USB...... USB: Scanning bus for devices... 3 USB device(s} found Waiting for storage device(s) to settle before scanning... TNote the last character "T". Usually there are many T's following the 1st one. But it all means is stock u-boot failed to spin up the USB drive.
With new u-boot, we have no problem like that. And it will provide all modern feature such as Ext4, GPT partition,....to name just a few. So I really think it's a waste of effort to stay with stock u-boot.