Cannot boot MilkV Meles

I haven’t done anything with the SPI flash. should I be flashing using the guide here?

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oh - you might be right - i mixed it up with the above line, but i think this simply flashes to the uboot partition of the emmc … i have no idea which steps would be the best to do next - best would be that someone from milk-v joins those disccussions here to resolve all those issuesw hich seems to surprisingly not happen …

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Any chance I can get some help or was buying this a waste of money?

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Looks like some of the boards have hardware issues.

Please email us at meles@milkv.io and we will replace or refund you.

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Email sent. Thank you!

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@setq also offered me to send the board to milkv and get a refund from arace … before starting all the hassle with shipping it back i gave it another try and to my surprise the board which was still booting from sd card at least a few days ago no longer boots and i now also get the “PHY0 DDR_INIT_ERR” lots of other people have as well - so looks like its completely broken now too … so looks like there is no way around to shipping it back

@setq - do i really have to ship the board back? can’t it just be refunded? - i mean you seem to send out boards which seem to have quetionable qa and then the customers - besides wasting a lot of time with this broken hardware - also have the hassle to organize to ship it back which costs extra and creates even more useless effort … also i would be interested to hear, what exactly the problem is - is there some regulator programmed with the wrong voltage so that the spi or other chips die after a short time (i noticed that the board gets surprisingly warm) … mine btw. does not respond to neither the serial cct flashing nor to fastboot flashing anymore now …

i hope to not have to see more such bad quality hardware and rather bad support from milkv in the future

best wishes - hexdump

update: in the end i got the fastboot flashing working (although very unreliable) and it looks like something broke the ram or ram-controller and not the spi as even a u-boot loaded into ram does not manage to calibrate the memory anymore (so no spi flash involved in this scenario even) …

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