RZ Boot Helper won’t run

#1

I’m trying to follow the instructions here to install on my Zero, but it never gets past “ - - start run - -“

https://wiki.radxa.com/Zero/install/eMMC#Linux

I’m following the Windows instructions. I’ve loaded up the factory-loader.img, but when I click “run”, all I get is the “start run” message, the run and erase buttons become disabled. It never goes any further than that.

#2

Hello MarkWalsh,

Can you try a different cable and a different USB port?

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#3

Thanks for the help, I originally had it plugged into a usb hub, so I grabbed a different cable and plugged it directly into the computer.

The first time I got it to run, and it did get to the “run done”, but I got several crash messages immediately afterwards (Isusb.exe has stopped working) and since then I can’t get it to load. “Not detected” comes up instead of “Maskrom mode”. I unplugged it and started it up while I have the Boot Helper program running, and I got the crash message again as it powered up.

I’m very need to this, I have a few Raspberry pi’s , but I only have used them with an SD card, so I’m not familiar with this procedure.

#4

It looks like the lsusb.exe is not compatible with your computer. What version of your system do you have, I would like to test it.

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#5

I’m running an older system, I have Windows 8.1 pro on this computer.

I restarted the computer, and was sble to load it again. It ran without any crash errors, but didn’t output as much as previously. It did end with

Running at 0xfffa0000…
[DONE]

Would that indicate that the previous action was successful?

#6

Or you can manually install pyamlboot and run it.

  1. Download Python3
  2. Install pyamlboot via pip
  3. Run it on the cmd

    python3 boot-g12.py rz-udisk-loader.bin

#7

It doesn’t look like it worked. Not seen the [BL2 END]

#8

thanks again, I’m not familiar with python, something I’ve been wanting to get around to.

I have a laptop running windows 10, I’ll try it on that later today. Maybe I’ll have better luck there. I have another PC that I can try, I just have nowhere to set it up without taking my production computer offline, so if the laptop doesn’t work, I’ll see if I can try that over the weekend. I also have 2 macs, but I’d prefer not to use those as our Mac IT guy is more strict with loading software on those.

#9

It worked on the laptop running Windows 10. It’s an old machine, so it’s excruciatingly slow, but i got through all steps except for erasing the memory, but I was able to load Armbian, and I’m getting the startup screen now, it’s taking a while to load, so I don’t know if it’s running properly, but at least the first steps worked.

Thanks for all of your assistance.

Edit: Success! Armbian is up and running!