From: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
To: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: Linux not booting consistantly
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 06:50:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200609220650.20992.sr@denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060922010445.20750.qmail@web33408.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Hi Jeff,
On Friday 22 September 2006 03:04, Jeff Stevens wrote:
> ## Booting image at 00200000 ...
> Image Name: Linux-2.6.15
> Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip
> compressed)
> Data Size: 1067371 Bytes = 1 MB
> Load Address: 00000000
> Entry Point: 00000000
> Verifying Checksum ... OK
> Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
>
> Could this be a memory issue (i.e. bad memory
> configuration)? Though, if it were a memory issue,
> wouldn't the kernel fail to uncompress successfully?
No, not necessarily. U-Boot normally hasn't D-cache enabled on 440 platforms,
so while uncompressing the kernel no bursts are generated to the SDRAM. And
with the bursts the "real fun" begins. ;-)
So, yes: I also think you have a memory problem.
> Does anyone have any ideas why it would work about
> once every 10 - 20 resets?
Did you try to analyze where it crashes?
http://www.denx.de/wiki/view/DULG/LinuxPostMortemAnalysis
Best regards,
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-22 5:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-14 17:52 Ethernet driver for Linux kernel 2.6 running on ML403 John Bonesio
2006-09-14 23:08 ` Keith J Outwater
2006-09-15 0:08 ` David H. Lynch Jr.
2006-09-15 1:14 ` David H. Lynch Jr.
2006-09-22 0:07 ` bsp for Linux kernel 2.6 shenbagaraj
2006-09-22 1:04 ` Linux not booting consistantly Jeff Stevens
2006-09-22 4:50 ` Stefan Roese [this message]
2006-09-30 15:20 ` Jeff Stevens
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2006-09-30 15:38 Muruga Ganapathy
2006-10-01 2:30 ` Jeff Stevens
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