Joe,

Will you attach a log of the steps you are performing from the app note? This will help us debug the issue that you are having.

Hi Steven,

The this log one did two steps, one is erase and another is to write the Raw Binary Files. The program exit due to "File noubl is not present." see belowing.
My last time do, it finished writing. The last step for the question I posted is to let SW78 in OFF and power on and the u-boot message shown up "ERROR: can't get kernel image!", but today it has error on writing.



Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\joe>cd C:\ti-logicpd\OMAP-L138_FlashAndBootUtils_2_40\OMAP-L138\GNU

C:\ti-logicpd\OMAP-L138_FlashAndBootUtils_2_40\OMAP-L138\GNU>sfh_OMAP-L138.exe -erase -p COM4
-----------------------------------------------------
TI Serial Flasher Host Program for OMAP-L138
(C) 2012, Texas Instruments, Inc.
Ver. 1.67
-----------------------------------------------------


[TYPE] Global erase
[TARGET] OMAPL138
[DEVICE] SPI_MEM
[SPI Block] 0


Attempting to connect to device COM4...
Press any key to end this program at any time.

(AIS Parse): Read magic word 0x41504954.
(AIS Parse): Waiting for BOOTME... (power on or reset target now)
(AIS Parse): BOOTME received!
(AIS Parse): Performing Start-Word Sync...
(AIS Parse): Performing Ping Opcode Sync...
(AIS Parse): Processing command 0: 0x58535901.
(AIS Parse): Performing Opcode Sync...
(AIS Parse): Loading section...
(AIS Parse): Loaded 9200-Byte section to address 0x80000000.
(AIS Parse): Processing command 1: 0x58535901.
(AIS Parse): Performing Opcode Sync...
(AIS Parse): Loading section...
(AIS Parse): Loaded 736-Byte section to address 0x800023F0.
(AIS Parse): Processing command 2: 0x58535906.
(AIS Parse): Performing Opcode Sync...
(AIS Parse): Performing jump and close...
(AIS Parse): AIS complete. Jump to address 0x80000000.
(AIS Parse): Waiting for DONE...
(AIS Parse): Boot completed successfully.

Waiting for SFT on the OMAP-L138...

Erasing flash
100% [ ¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦ ]
Erase complete


Operation completed successfully.

C:\ti-logicpd\OMAP-L138_FlashAndBootUtils_2_40\OMAP-L138\GNU>sfh_OMAP-L138.exe -flash noubl -targetType OMAPL138 1014694revA_ti_
uboot_linux_cat.bi -p COM4
-----------------------------------------------------
TI Serial Flasher Host Program for OMAP-L138
(C) 2012, Texas Instruments, Inc.
Ver. 1.67
-----------------------------------------------------


[TYPE] UBL and application image
[UBL] noubl
[APP IMAGE] 1014694revA_ti_uboot_linux_cat.bi
[TARGET] OMAPL138
[DEVICE] SPI_MEM
[SPI Block] 0


Attempting to connect to device COM4...
Press any key to end this program at any time.

(AIS Parse): Read magic word 0x41504954.
(AIS Parse): Waiting for BOOTME... (power on or reset target now)
(AIS Parse): BOOTME received!
(AIS Parse): Performing Start-Word Sync...
(AIS Parse): Performing Ping Opcode Sync...
(AIS Parse): Processing command 0: 0x58535901.
(AIS Parse): Performing Opcode Sync...
(AIS Parse): Loading section...
(AIS Parse): Loaded 9200-Byte section to address 0x80000000.
(AIS Parse): Processing command 1: 0x58535901.
(AIS Parse): Performing Opcode Sync...
(AIS Parse): Loading section...
(AIS Parse): Loaded 736-Byte section to address 0x800023F0.
(AIS Parse): Processing command 2: 0x58535906.
(AIS Parse): Performing Opcode Sync...
(AIS Parse): Performing jump and close...
(AIS Parse): AIS complete. Jump to address 0x80000000.
(AIS Parse): Waiting for DONE...
(AIS Parse): Boot completed successfully.

Waiting for SFT on the OMAP-L138...
File noubl is not present.


Interfacing to the OMAP-L138 via UART failed.
Please reset or power-cycle the board and try again...
C:\ti-logicpd\OMAP-L138_FlashAndBootUtils_2_40\OMAP-L138\GNU>

Hi Steven,
I find the problem of my last reply. Now here is steps of log

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\joe>cd C:\ti-logicpd\OMAP-L138_FlashAndBootUtils_2_40\OMAP-L138\GNU

C:\ti-logicpd\OMAP-L138_FlashAndBootUtils_2_40\OMAP-L138\GNU>sfh_OMAP-L138.exe -erase -p COM4
-----------------------------------------------------
TI Serial Flasher Host Program for OMAP-L138
(C) 2012, Texas Instruments, Inc.
Ver. 1.67
-----------------------------------------------------


[TYPE] Global erase
[TARGET] OMAPL138
[DEVICE] SPI_MEM
[SPI Block] 0


Attempting to connect to device COM4...
Press any key to end this program at any time.

(AIS Parse): Read magic word 0x41504954.
(AIS Parse): Waiting for BOOTME... (power on or reset target now)
(AIS Parse): BOOTME received!
(AIS Parse): Performing Start-Word Sync...
(AIS Parse): Performing Ping Opcode Sync...
(AIS Parse): Processing command 0: 0x58535901.
(AIS Parse): Performing Opcode Sync...
(AIS Parse): Loading section...
(AIS Parse): Loaded 9200-Byte section to address 0x80000000.
(AIS Parse): Processing command 1: 0x58535901.
(AIS Parse): Performing Opcode Sync...
(AIS Parse): Loading section...
(AIS Parse): Loaded 736-Byte section to address 0x800023F0.
(AIS Parse): Processing command 2: 0x58535906.
(AIS Parse): Performing Opcode Sync...
(AIS Parse): Performing jump and close...
(AIS Parse): AIS complete. Jump to address 0x80000000.
(AIS Parse): Waiting for DONE...
(AIS Parse): Boot completed successfully.

Waiting for SFT on the OMAP-L138...

Erasing flash
100% [ ¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦ ]
Erase complete


Operation completed successfully.

C:\ti-logicpd\OMAP-L138_FlashAndBootUtils_2_40\OMAP-L138\GNU>sfh_OMAP-L138.exe -flash_noubl -targetType OMAPL138 1014694revA_ti_
uboot_linux_cat.bi -p COM4
-----------------------------------------------------
TI Serial Flasher Host Program for OMAP-L138
(C) 2012, Texas Instruments, Inc.
Ver. 1.67
-----------------------------------------------------


[TYPE] Single boot image
[BOOT IMAGE] 1014694revA_ti_uboot_linux_cat.bi
[TARGET] OMAPL138
[DEVICE] SPI_MEM
[SPI Block] 0


Attempting to connect to device COM4...
Press any key to end this program at any time.

(AIS Parse): Read magic word 0x41504954.
(AIS Parse): Waiting for BOOTME... (power on or reset target now)
(AIS Parse): BOOTME received!
(AIS Parse): Performing Start-Word Sync...
(AIS Parse): Performing Ping Opcode Sync...
(AIS Parse): Processing command 0: 0x58535901.
(AIS Parse): Performing Opcode Sync...
(AIS Parse): Loading section...
(AIS Parse): Loaded 9200-Byte section to address 0x80000000.
(AIS Parse): Processing command 1: 0x58535901.
(AIS Parse): Performing Opcode Sync...
(AIS Parse): Loading section...
(AIS Parse): Loaded 736-Byte section to address 0x800023F0.
(AIS Parse): Processing command 2: 0x58535906.
(AIS Parse): Performing Opcode Sync...
(AIS Parse): Performing jump and close...
(AIS Parse): AIS complete. Jump to address 0x80000000.
(AIS Parse): Waiting for DONE...
(AIS Parse): Boot completed successfully.

Waiting for SFT on the OMAP-L138...

Flashing application 1014694revA_ti_uboot_linux_cat.bi (5772040 bytes)

100% [ ████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ ]
Image data transmitted over UART.

100% [ ████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ ]
Application programming complete


Operation completed successfully.

C:\ti-logicpd\OMAP-L138_FlashAndBootUtils_2_40\OMAP-L138\GNU>


****
The next step is to open Tera Term VT, make SW7&8 is OFF, and power on. The u-boot comes out,

U-Boot 2009.01 (Sep 17 2009 - 17:41:56)

I2C: ready
DRAM: 64 MB
*** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment

In: serial
Out: serial
Err: serial
ARM Clock : 300000000 Hz
DDR Clock : 150000000 Hz
Invalid MAC address read.
Net: Ethernet PHY: GENERIC @ 0x00

Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0
8192 KiB M25P64 at 0:0 is now current device
## Booting kernel from Legacy Image at c0700000 ...
Image Name: Linux-2.6.31-rc7-davinci1-06298-
Image Type: ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
Data Size: 1422960 Bytes = 1.4 MB
Load Address: c0008000
Entry Point: c0008000
Verifying Checksum ... OK
Loading Kernel Image ... OK
OK

Starting kernel ...

Uncompressing Linux........................................................................................... done, booting the kernel.



Since it stop here this time. Here is the printenv of u-boot
U-Boot > print
bootargs=mem=32M console=ttyS2,115200n8 root=/dev/ram0 rw initrd=0xc1180000,4M ip=off
bootcmd=sf probe 0;sf read 0xc0700000 0x80000 0x200000;sf read 0xc1180000 0x280000 0x300000;bootm 0xc0700000
bootdelay=3
baudrate=115200
bootfile="uImage"
stdin=serial
stdout=serial
stderr=serial
ethaddr=04:8d:ec:4b:f4:9e
ethact=
ver=U-Boot 2009.01 (Sep 17 2009 - 17:41:56)

Environment size: 360/65532 bytes

Thanks
Joe