Re: Booting Debian on my Arndale board

[Phil Endecott <spam_from_debian_arm@chezphil.org>]

Phil Endecott wrote: 
> I have got as far as a login prompt, about twice.  But
> normally the boot process seems to stop at some random point, 
> maybe when "Activating swapfile" or "Cleaning up temporary 
> files".  Sometimes it pauses for a bit, then makes some more 
> progress, then stops more permanently.

> should I be able to use this Linaro Ubuntu kernel (and their 
> U-Boot) to boot a Debian armhf system?

It seems to boot reliably if I disable concurrent init with

# touch /etc/init.d/.legacy-bootordering

As you can imagine I have spent a lot of time trying random stuff before
stumbling on this.....

I see that the Ubunutu image uses upstart so presumably it wouldn't
encounter whatever underlying problem this indicates.

Any ideas what might be going on?


Cheers,  Phil.