Re: Debian on SheevaPlug
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Rickard Nilsson
<rickard.nilsson@telia.com> wrote:
> Den 2009-04-26 13:39:17 skrev David Given <dg@cowlark.com>:
>
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>> Rickard Nilsson wrote:
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>>> However, the process just stops after having uncompressed the
>>> kernel:
>>
>> What are your bootargs? Have you told it you want it to use a serial
>> console (without which you'll get no output at all)?
>>
>> I have:
>>
>> console=ttyS0,115200
>> mtdparts=nand_mtd:0x400000@0x100000(uImage),0x1fb00000@0x500000(rootfs)
>> rw root=b301 rootdelay=5
>>
>> (b301 is the first partition on the SD card; you should be aware that
>> there seems to be a problem with recent mainline kernels in that they
>> don't handle the SD card properly.)
>
> I have essentially the same bootargs as you, including the console. If
> I boot the kernel that Marvell ships, in exactly the same way and with
> the same bootargs, everything works fine, and I can watch the kernel
> loading on the console.
>
> I have also tried running:
>
> setenv mainlineLinux=yes
> setenv arcNumber=2097
>
> first, as Martin suggested, but that didn't change anything.
>
Just a note, noticed on mine it didn't recognize those variables
initially. Make sure you issue a "saveenv" followed by a "reset" to
reload everything... Can't wait for a clean upstream version of
u-boot for this board....
Regards
--
Robert Nelson
http://www.rcn-ee.com/
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