Re: Can I install debian on a e300 board?
Hi
Lingfeng Xiong <xionglingfeng@gmail.com> writes:
> hi there.
> I got a MPC8313E-RDBB board from Freescale some days before. For I am a newbie
> on PowerPC, I wanna know which toolchain should I use to compile software on
> this board? And can I run debian on this board? If I can, how to install debian
> on SD card and let u-boot load it?
I have no idea if it is possible to achieve what you're trying to do --
I have installed debian on desktop ppc systems only, never on embedded
devices.
Anyway, one thing you can try to debug the issue is to add "earlyprintk"
to your kernel command line parameters (in u-boot, of course). This
should provide you with some early messages from the kernel assumming,
of course, that the kernel actually starts execution.
Just my 2 cents...
--
Luis Henriques
> I have tried these steps:
> 1. Download a business card image for PowerPC architecture from
> http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.1a/powerpc/iso-cd/debian-6.0.1a-powerpc-businesscard.iso
> 2. Extract Linux kernel from install/powerpc/vmlinux
> 3. Add u-boot required header by this command (Cygwin):
> # ./mkimage.exe -A ppc -O linux -T kernel -C none -a 0x00 -e 0x00 -n
> "Debian-businesscard-squeeze" -d
> ../../mpc8313erdbb/debian/businesscard/vmlinux
> ../../mpc8313erdbb/debian/businesscard/uImage
> Image Name: Debian-businesscard-squeeze
> Created: Fri Jun 3 19:37:07 2011
> Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
> Data Size: 6967555 Bytes = 6804.25 kB = 6.64 MB
> Load Address: 0x00000000
> Entry Point: 0x00000000
>
> 4. Enter u-boot in target board and execute:
> U-Boot 1.3.0 (Dec 22 2008 - 11:19:29) MPC83XX
>
> Reset Status:
>
> CPU: e300c3, MPC8313E, Rev: 21 at 333.333 MHz, CSB: 166 MHz
> Board: Freescale MPC8313ERDB
> I2C: ready
> DRAM: 128 MB
> FLASH: 8 MB
> NAND: 32 MiB
> In: serial
> Out: serial
> Err: serial
> Net: TSEC0, TSEC1 [PRIME]
> Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0
> =>
> => setenv serverip 192.168.0.104
> => dhcp
> Speed: 100, full duplex
> BOOTP broadcast 1
> DHCP client bound to address 192.168.0.103
> Using TSEC1 device
> TFTP from server 192.168.0.104; our IP address is 192.168.0.103
> Filename 'uImage'.
> Load address: 0x200000
> Loading: #################################################################
> #################################################################
> #################################################################
>
> #################################################################
> #################################################################
> #################################################################
>
> #################################################################
> ####################
> done
> Bytes transferred = 6967619 (6a5143 hex)
> => bootm 0x200000
> ## Booting image at 00200000 ...
> Image Name: Debian-netinst-squeeze
> Created: 2011-06-03 11:09:45 UTC
> Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
> Data Size: 6967555 Bytes = 6.6 MB
> Load Address: 00000000
> Entry Point: 00000000
> Verifying Checksum ... OK
> OK
>
> 5. System halt here.
>
> Could you tell me which steps I did incorrect and what is the correct way?
> Thanks.
> --
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