RE: Kernel not working

[Komal Shah <komal_shah802003@yahoo.com>]

--- Richard Copeman <richard.copeman@lauterbach.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Many thanks for the pointers. I have taken a look at the newbie
> guide. I
> have got a 2.6.13.4 kernel built with gcc 3.4.1 as per the
> instructions in
> the guide. I have the kernel image tftpboot loaded onto my OSK board
> and
> things progress a little further (but not much).
> 
> I get:
> 
> Starting kernel ...
> 
> Uncompressing
> Linux......................................................
> 
> And then it all stops. In the newbie guide there was a section about
> this
> and I have added the extra head-omap.o to my Makefile in
> arch/arm/boot/compressed and rebuilt but still no improvement.
> Grepping
> through the build logs the object has been included so I'm guessing
> my mods
> worked ;-)
> 
> On another point, my board does not allow me to save my Uboot
> environment.
> Typing save gives me:
> 
> Saving E"@ironment to Flash...
> Un-Protected 1 sectors
> Erasing Flash...Can't erase unknown flash type 00000000 - aborted
> Erased 1 sectors
> Error: start and/or end address not on sector boundary
> OMAP5912OSK#

As I am not a OSK user, but I remember someone saying that updating the
u-boot helps on OSK. Please try the latest version of u-boot then.

---Komal Shah
http://komalshah.blogspot.com/


		
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