Wrong Image Format for bootm command - HI3516EV300 with NAND flash failed to boot

[Zhhi]

Hi, I had freshly installed the firmware but its not booting.

Boot output:

U-Boot 2016.11-g6d2ed0c-dirty (Mar 20 2023 - 13:54:41 +0300)hi3516ev300

Relocation Offset is: 0774a000
Relocating to 47f4a000, new gd at 47b39ef0, sp at 47b39ed0
SPI Nor:  Boot Media isn't SPI Nor
NAND:  hifmc_ip_ver_check(44): Check Flash Memory Controller v100 ...hifmc_ip_ver_check(50):  Found
SPI Nand ID Table Version 2.7
SPI Nand(cs 0) ID: 0xef 0xaa 0x21 Name:"W25N01GV"
Block:128KB Page:2KB OOB:64B ECC:4bit/512
Chipsize:128 MiB
MMC:   Card did not respond to voltage select!
No SD device found !
hisi-sdhci: 0
In:    serial
Out:   serial
Err:   serial
RAM size: 128MB
Net:   eth0
Warning: eth0 (eth0) using random MAC address - 52:bf:a2:a5:ff:1d

Press Ctrl-c to stop autoboot... 1

NAND read: device 0 offset 0x100000, size 0x300000
 3145728 bytes read: OK
Wrong Image Format for bootm command
ERROR: can't get kernel image!
OpenIPC #

Commands form the generated installation guide:

setenv ipaddr 192.168.1.253; setenv serverip 192.168.1.22
mw.b 0x42000000 0xff 0x800000
tftpboot 0x42000000 openipc-hi3516ev300-ultimate-8mb.bin
nand erase 0x0 0x800000; nand write 0x42000000 0x0 0x800000
reset
run setnand

Logging of input comments (its using OpenIPC U-Boot as i had flashed it once before this)

U-Boot 2016.11-g6d2ed0c-dirty (Mar 20 2023 - 13:54:41 +0300)hi3516ev300

Relocation Offset is: 0774a000
Relocating to 47f4a000, new gd at 47b39ef0, sp at 47b39ed0
SPI Nor:  Boot Media isn't SPI Nor
NAND:  hifmc_ip_ver_check(44): Check Flash Memory Controller v100 ...hifmc_ip_ve                                                                                                                                                             r_check(50):  Found
SPI Nand ID Table Version 2.7
SPI Nand(cs 0) ID: 0xef 0xaa 0x21 Name:"W25N01GV"
Block:128KB Page:2KB OOB:64B ECC:4bit/512
Chipsize:128 MiB
MMC:   Card did not respond to voltage select!
No SD device found !
hisi-sdhci: 0
In:    serial
Out:   serial
Err:   serial
RAM size: 128MB
Net:   eth0
Warning: eth0 (eth0) using random MAC address - 52:bf:a2:a5:ff:1d

Press Ctrl-c to stop autoboot... 1
OpenIPC # setenv ipaddr 192.168.1.253; setenv serverip 192.168.1.22
OpenIPC # mw.b 0x42000000 0xff 0x800000
OpenIPC # tftpboot 0x42000000 openipc-hi3516ev300-ultimate-8mb.bin
Hisilicon ETH net controler
MAC address invalid!
Set Random MAC address: 1e:b1:95:64:67:62
eth0 : phy status change : LINK=UP : DUPLEX=FULL : SPEED=100M
Using eth0 device
TFTP from server 192.168.1.22; our IP address is 192.168.1.253
Filename 'openipc-hi3516ev300-ultimate-8mb.bin'.
Load address: 0x42000000
Loading: #################################################################
         #################################################################
         #################################################################
         #################################################################
         #################################################################
         #################################################################
         #################################################################
         #################################################################
         ####################################################
         3.8 MiB/s
done
Bytes transferred = 8388608 (800000 hex)
OpenIPC # nand erase 0x0 0x800000; nand write 0x42000000 0x0 0x800000

NAND erase: device 0 offset 0x0, size 0x800000
Erasing at 0x7e0000 -- 100% complete.
OK

NAND write: device 0 offset 0x0, size 0x800000
pure data length is 8388608, len_incl_bad is 8388608
 8388608 bytes written: OK
OpenIPC # reset
resetting ...



System startup

Uncompress Ok!

U-Boot 2016.11-g6d2ed0c-dirty (Mar 20 2023 - 13:54:41 +0300)hi3516ev300

Relocation Offset is: 0774a000
Relocating to 47f4a000, new gd at 47b39ef0, sp at 47b39ed0
SPI Nor:  Boot Media isn't SPI Nor
NAND:  hifmc_ip_ver_check(44): Check Flash Memory Controller v100 ...hifmc_ip_ver_check(50):  Found
SPI Nand ID Table Version 2.7
SPI Nand(cs 0) ID: 0xef 0xaa 0x21 Name:"W25N01GV"
Block:128KB Page:2KB OOB:64B ECC:4bit/512
Chipsize:128 MiB
MMC:   Card did not respond to voltage select!
No SD device found !
hisi-sdhci: 0
*** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment

Erasing NAND...
Erasing at 0x40000 -- 100% complete.
Writing to NAND... OK
Saving default environment...
Erasing NAND...
Erasing at 0x40000 -- 100% complete.
Writing to NAND... OK
In:    serial
Out:   serial
Err:   serial
RAM size: 128MB
Net:   eth0
Warning: eth0 (eth0) using random MAC address - 3e:20:51:72:cc:28

Press Ctrl-c to stop autoboot... 1
OpenIPC # run setnand
Saving Environment to NAND...
Erasing NAND...
Erasing at 0x40000 -- 100% complete.
Writing to NAND... OK
resetting ...

Appreciate if anyone can point me to the right direction.

[Rideu]

I had luck using run uknand and run urnand commands that will download uImage and rootfs.ubi from your tftp server folder (you can find those in the releases).

Some refs i used:

1. https://github.com/OpenIPC/wiki/blob/master/en/help-uboot.md
2. hi3518ev200 bootloop with latest precompiled files #695