TS-4100 Booting up the board

Power input to the TS-4100 TS-SOCKET requires a single 5 V source from the baseboard (which may be regulated from other voltage ranges). Refer to the TS-SOCKET Connector section for information on power pins.

The TS-4100 can also be powered standalone from 5 V via the micro USB AB port labeled "P1" when in standalone and not attached to a baseboard. The "P1" connector is mechanically locked out on many of our baseboards to prevent powering the device from multiple sources. For more information on how to operate the TS-4100 in standalone mode see section on Standalone Mode.

Once power is applied to the system, there will be output on the debug console port. The connecting to a console section of the manual provides information on getting the serial console connected. The first output is from U-Boot and will resemble the following when booting from SD card:

U-Boot 2016.03-00367-gb3ce405827 (Jul 02 2019 - 16:40:10 -0700)

CPU:   Freescale i.MX6UL rev1.1 at 396 MHz
Reset cause: POR
Board: Technologic Systems TS-4100
FPGA:  Rev 11
Silab: Rev 2
I2C:   ready
DRAM:  1 GiB
MMC:   FSL_SDHC: 0, FSL_SDHC: 1
Baseboard ID: 0x8
Baseboard Rev: 0
Net:   FEC0 [PRIME]
Press Ctrl+C to abort autoboot in 1 second(s)
starting USB...
USB0:   USB EHCI 1.00
scanning bus 0 for devices... 1 USB Device(s) found
USB1:   USB EHCI 1.00
scanning bus 1 for devices... 1 USB Device(s) found
       scanning usb for storage devices... 0 Storage Device(s) found
No storage devices, perhaps not 'usb start'ed..?
Booting from the SD card ...
** File not found /boot/boot.scr **
** File not found /boot/ts4100-fpga.vme **
29205 bytes read in 146 ms (195.3 KiB/s)
8 detected
5244088 bytes read in 390 ms (12.8 MiB/s)
Kernel image @ 0x80800000 [ 0x000000 - 0x5004b8 ]
## Flattened Device Tree blob at 83000000
   Booting using the fdt blob at 0x83000000
   Using Device Tree in place at 83000000, end 8300a214

Starting kernel ...

Note:

The "*** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment" message can be safely ignored when the unit is first booted. This means that no environment variables have been saved to disk, and U-Boot is falling back to the default. If "env save" is run, this will save the environment to disk, and this message will go away unless there are further issues.

The default U-Boot boot process will check for a bootable USB drive, and then will check the "SD Boot" jumper state if it exists. If the "SD boot" jumper is set, it will boot to the Linux on the SD card, otherwise it will boot to the eMMC. Details about the bootup process, features, and other U-Boot information can be found in the U-Boot sections.