Flashing a Dbox2 using A Null Modem Cable and Hyper Terminal

[max_gee]

Is this method for 2 x or 1 x and 2 x?

[ahay]

about to try this myself had a box for ages now and ifa doing nothing apart from try and copy same file over and over again

[gizmo.1484]

about to try this myself had a box for ages now and ifa doing nothing apart from try and copy same file over and over again

What files are you trying to copy to your box? If you give me a bit more info i can help you sort your problem out.

[ahay]

well the box had klien something on it, trying to reflash it if tried ifa lots of images but nothign, got 1 image on it using ifa and now showing the 5 blocks and then the betaresearch screen its a nokia dbox

I just used the hyperterminal method all went well everything said done plugged it in and its now the same showing 5 blocks going to the beta research bit and resetting.

The image i tried was lakys sylas 2x the flash went ok

Any ideas or is this a brick

[robbeye]

hi,
didn't work for me, followed all the steps - all seemed good and thought that it would work, however when I restarted the box the same problem remained - i.e LCD screen Stuck on 5 blocks , showing the software version/data etc.....

tried twice, and various other methods using IFA...if there is anything else I can try let us know, otherwise I think thats it for old dear, she'll be spending christmas in a dark, damp skip........alone

you may be using the wrong image 1x or 2x it will hang like that if you have flashed a wrong image. Is your box a 1chip or 2 chip if you flash a 1chip with a 2x flash it will hang.

[ahay]

opened the box and double checked its def 2 chip has two intel chips inside

[robbeye]

Is this method for 2 x or 1 x and 2 x?

it does any image 1x and 2x

[ahay]

i give up tried another 4 images box still the same i can flash the images but it refusing to boot. i think something might be up with the bootloader

[Peapods]

know this is the stupidest thing, but I cant type the commands into my hyperterminal window...what am I doing wrong?
Also I get this message which doesnt tie in with the above screenshots
Thanks in advance
(its a mates box, Ive had no probs with either eurovox or starview but Im stumped)

wdebug: DDF: Calibrating delay loop... debug: DDF: 67.79 BogoMIPS
debug: BMon V1.0 mID 01
debug: feID 7a gtxID 0b
debug: fpID 5a dsID 01-32.83.d1.06.00.00-64
debug: HWrev X5 SWrev 0.81
debug: B/Ex/Fl(MB) 32/00/08
WATCHDOG reset enabled
dbox2:root> debug:
BOOTP/TFTP bootstrap loader (v0.3)
debug:
debug: Transmitting BOOTP request via broadcast
debug: Given up BOOTP/TFTP boot
boot net failed

Flash-FS bootstrap loader (v1.5)

Found Flash-FS superblock version 3.1
Found file /root/platform/nokia-dbox2/kernel/os in Flash-FS
debug: Got Block #0032

will verify ELF image, start= 0x800000, size= 152952
verify sig: 263
Branching to 0x40000


U-Boot 1.1.2 (TuxBox) (May 23 2004 - 21:44:01)

CPU: PPC823ZTnnA at 67.200 MHz: 2 kB I-Cache 1 kB D-Cache
*** Warning: CPU Core has Silicon Bugs -- Check the Errata ***
Board: DBOX2, Nokia, BMon V1.0
Watchdog enabled
I2C: ready
DRAM: 32 MB
FLASH: 8 MB
Scanning JFFS2 FS: ....... done.
FB: ready
LCD: ready
In: serial
Out: serial
Err: serial
Net: SCC ETHERNET

Options:
1: Console on null
2: Console on ttyS0
3: Console on framebuffer
Select option (1-3), other keys to stop autoboot: 0
.................................................. .............
Un-Protected 63 sectors
### FS (jffs2) loading 'vmlinuz' to 0x100000
### FS load complete: 619057 bytes loaded to 0x100000
## Booting image at 00100000 ...
Image Name: dbox2
Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
Data Size: 618993 Bytes = 604.5 kB
Load Address: 00000000
Entry Point: 00000000
Verifying Checksum ... OK
Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK

[wooooody64]

all went well until last bit

cp.l 120000 10020000 1F8000
Wait untill it says Done.
10 mins went by with just cursor flashing

Do I need to be in debug mode?

[wooooody64]

had another go, been saying "copy toflash" for about 10 minutes now, is this normal?

[wooooody64]

finally said done, but did not seem to work.

LCD lights up, with some code on front, but does not boot up and I cant try again now as it does not seem to switch on and off from button

[wooooody64]

Thanks it finally worked! ;-)

But now the box only shows free to air channels, Ive scanned a couple of times, but still the same.

What do I need to do?

[RayR33]

Hi AfterMath,

Just had to send a big thank you for this post. I recently used the information and it brought life back to what I had thought was a messed up Dbox.

Thanks once again.

RayR33

[PLAC]

Hi I just got a dbox2 from a friend which won't boot. I need to download u-boot ASAP. Have null modem cable. Can anybody help?