Re: Debian 9 (armel) - doesnt start
On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 12:43 PM Stefan Lehner wrote:
> I have a very unusal setup: a old Handheld PC with a StrongARM CPU on which
> i like to get Debian 9 running.
Any particular reason you didn't go for Debian 10?
> Short summary of my Kernel:
> 4.9.210 with BX emulation patch (to get things going on the old ARMv4)
Has this patch been sent upstream?
> $ cp /usr/bin/qemu-arm-static /mnt/jornada/usr/bin
BTW, this should not be needed with qemu from buster and later:
https://bugs.debian.org/868030
> And here is the problem: the kernel boots up fine, mounts the rootfs. After
> a while it displays crng init done and thats it. Nothing more .
> Can somebody help me?
I suggest trying to set init=/bin/bash on the Linux kernel
command-line to see if the kernel booted successfully and the issue is
an init problem or not.
Perhaps it is caused by your CPU being too old for armel, or is the BX
emulation patch meant to workaround that? IIRC armel was ARMv4T from
Debian 9 stretch and earlier and got upgraded to ARMv5TE with Debian
10 buster.
Other than that I'm not sure what the issue could be, hopefully
someone else has an idea here or on the upstream Linux ARM mailing
list.
https://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm-kernel
--
bye,
pabs
https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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