So I wrote yet other SD card and booted. This one had a proper local scope MAC address of 2a:3d:13:da:6b:8d

But no IPaddress despite seeing:

[ 110.068220] eth0: device MAC address 2a:3d:13:da:6b:8d [ 110.375071] No MAC Management Counters available [ 110.837519] No MAC Management Counters available [ 110.879485] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready [ 112.702512] stmmaceth 1c50000.ethernet eth0: Link is Up - 100Mbps/Full - flow control off [ 112.728241] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready

So I tried running dhclient and there were all sorts of messages, but I forgot to turn logging back on, and no address assignment. So something is not working for addressing.

So decided to poweroff, reboot, and retry addressing. It failed big time with the following capture:

HELLO! BOOT0 is starting! boot0 version : 3.0.0 dram size =1024 sum=0x01be1e3a src_sum=0x01be1e3a Ready to disable icache. Jump to secend Boot. [ 0.132]

U-Boot 2011.09-rc1-00003-ge89ab14-dirty (Jan 03 2014 - 12:57:33) Allwinner Technology

[ 0.141]version: 1.1.0 [ 0.144]pmbus: ready [ 0.249]PMU: AXP209 [ 0.252]PMU: AXP20x found [ 0.255]PMU: bat ratio = 100 [ 0.258]after set, dcdc2 =1400mv [ 0.262]PMU: dcdc2 1400 [ 0.264]PMU: pll1 912 Mhz boot_clock = 912 dcdc2_vol = 1400 [ 0.272]after set, dcdc2 =1400mv dcdc3_vol = 1250 ldo2_vol = 3000 ldo3_vol = 2800 ldo4_vol = 2800 power_start = 0 storage_type = -1 usb_recovery = 1 find power_sply to end fel key old mode run key detect no key found no key input dram_para_set start dram_para_set end [ 0.308]DRAM: 1 GiB relocation Offset is: 35b23000 donn't initialize ther user_gpio (main_key:boot_init_gpio) DRV_DISP_Init: opened [ 0.522]boot_disp.output_type=4 [ 0.526]boot_disp.output_mode=4 [ 0.529]boot_disp.auto_hpd=1 Hdmi_dvi_enable is NULL Hdmi_get_input_csc is NULL workmode = 0 [ 0.570]NAND: NAND_UbootInit NB1 : enter NAND_LogicInit nand : get id_number_ctl from script, 3 not burn nand partition table! NB1 : nand_info_init fail [ 4.180]nand init fail set to recovery try sprite_led_gpio config sprite_led_gpio start sunxi sprite begin screen_width = 1280 screen_height = 720 bar x1: 320 y1: 320 bar x2: 960 y2: 400 read mbr failed sprite update error: no data part found read mbr failed sprite update error: read image start error sprite update error: current card sprite failed now hold the machine fail to find part named env Using default environment

In: serial Out: serial Err: serial --------fastboot partitions-------- mbr not exist base bootcmd=run setargs_nand boot_normal bootcmd set setargs_nand key 0 recovery key high 6, low 4 cant find fstbt value no misc partition is found to be run cmd=run setargs_nand boot_normal the part isn't exist WORK_MODE_BOOT WORK_MODE_BOOT [ 4.276]Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0 cant find part named boot sunxi_flash - sunxi_flash sub-system

Usage: sunxi_flash read command parmeters : parmeters 0 : addr to load(hex only) parmeters 1 : the name of the part to be load [parmeters 2] : the number of bytes to be load(hex only) if [parmeters 2] not exist, the number of bytes to be load is the size of the part indecated on partemeter 1 boota: bad boot image magic, maybe not a boot.img? sunxi#

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I know that nand is messed up. This appears to be a fact of life with the Cubieboard and when you do a 1st boot of a linux on SD. There is supposedly a complex process (to me, complex) to fix nand and get duo boot working. But I can't follow the instructions. One page on it is half in chinese.

So I guess this finishes today's testing unless I am asked to try something else.