RE: Booting OMAP5912 with 2.6.8 kernel

RE: Booting OMAP5912 with 2.6.8 kernel

[Hunter, Jon]

> My intension here is to use filesystem flashed onto the flash memory
at
> 0x1000000 location. When tried booting with Montavista kernel which
comes
> with CD, it works fine. But fails when tried booting with custom
kernel
> compiled using 2.6.8-rc3_080804.tar.bz2 package from TI site.
> True that it could not find root file system which is placed at
0x1000000
> of flash. But what could be the root value
> to make it work?  does manual partition of the FLASH memory is
required ?


If you are trying to use the 2.6.8 kernel with the default file-system
that comes with the OSK, I don't believe this will work. The montavista
kernel that comes with the OSK is a 2.4 kernel and not 2.6. Therefore,
you should create a new flash file-system for the 2.6.8 kernel. 

Check out the OSK wiki page: http://elinux.org/OSK

In particular see the "OSK5912 Newbie Guide" that provides details on
how to create a flash file-system. 

http://www.capgo.com/Resources/SoftwareDev/osk-newbie-guide.pdf

Also, please copy the list. You can also search the mailing list on the
following page, as there has been a lot of discussion with regard to the
OSK in the past. 

http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.arm.omap

Cheers
Jon

Re: Booting OMAP5912 with 2.6.8 kernel

[Philip Balister]

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Hunter, Jon wrote:
> Check out the OSK wiki page: http://elinux.org/OSK
> 
> In particular see the "OSK5912 Newbie Guide" that provides details on
> how to create a flash file-system. 
> 
> http://www.capgo.com/Resources/SoftwareDev/osk-newbie-guide.pdf
> 
> Also, please copy the list. You can also search the mailing list on the
> following page, as there has been a lot of discussion with regard to the
> OSK in the past. 
> 
> http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.arm.omap

You can download a rootfs and a 2.6.23 based kernel from:

http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/releases/2007.12/images/omap5912osk/

Let me know of they work for you.

Philip

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Re: Booting OMAP5912 with 2.6.8 kernel

[Fabiano Ferronato]

Hi Rajagopal Venkat,

I´m using GIT´s Kernel, but I think it works the same. I´ve tryed to
follow TI´s instructions but it doesn´t help me very well.

I think you must configure your u-boot´s variables related with file
system. Send your your u-boot config.

regards

Fabiano
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Re: Booting OMAP5912 with 2.6.8 kernel

[Trilok Soni]

Hi Rajagopal,

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 6:46 PM, Rajagopal Venkat
<rajagopal.venkat@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  I am newbie to LINUX and OMAP5912 as well. I have been trying to boot
>  5912 OSK with 2.6.8 kernel downloaded from TI site following
>  instructions given in "How to Build Linux for the OMAP5912 Processor"
>  document. But i could not succeed.
>
>  Here is the error message when kernel is booted:
>
>
>  ## Booting image at 00100000 ...
>   Image Name:   Linux Kernel Image
>   Image Type:   ARM Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
>   Data Size:    862446 Bytes = 842.2 kB
>   Load Address: 10c08000
>   Entry Point:  10c08000
>   Verifying Checksum ... OK
>   Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
>
>  Starting kernel ...
>
>  Linux version 2.6.8-rc3-omap1 (user@knoppix-box) (gcc version 3.3.2)

We are now moved to vger.kernel.org based OMAP list, so removing old
list. Your kernel version looks very old. Could you please try the
kernel from OMAP GIT. You can find instructions at
http://www.muru.com/linux/omap. GIT tree is at

http://source.mvista.com/git and also at http://www.kernel.org/git.

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