From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nishanth Menon Subject: Re: BeagleBoard stops at booting kernel with 2.6.37-rc5 Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 14:28:36 -0600 Message-ID: <4D0A7674.40009@ti.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from na3sys009aog109.obsmtp.com ([74.125.149.201]:59474 "EHLO na3sys009aog109.obsmtp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756470Ab0LPU2l (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Dec 2010 15:28:41 -0500 Received: by gyg8 with SMTP id 8so1819485gyg.10 for ; Thu, 16 Dec 2010 12:28:39 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-omap-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org To: Robert Nelson Cc: Elvis Dowson , Linux OMAP Mailing List Robert Nelson had written, on 12/16/2010 02:25 PM, the following: > On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Elvis Dowson wrote: >> Hi, >> I'm working with linux mainline 2.6.37-rc5 and my custom beagleboard based platform stops at booting the kernel. Is there a fix for this? >> >> reading uImage >> >> 2432692 bytes read >> Booting from mmc ... >> ## Booting kernel from Legacy Image at 82000000 ... >> Image Name: Linux-2.6.37-rc5 >> Image Type: ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed) >> Data Size: 2432628 Bytes = 2.3 MB >> Load Address: 80008000 >> Entry Point: 80008000 >> Verifying Checksum ... OK >> Loading Kernel Image ... OK >> OK >> >> Starting kernel ... >> >> Uncompressing Linux... done, booting the kernel. >> > > If it stops there, double check your bootarg's as with 2.6.37+ you > might be using the omap-serial vs the old generic serial driver... > "ttyO2" (O in Omap) vs "ttyS2".. one more thing: in fs - getty dependency might exist - you could choose something similar to what I did on my bare busybox install: http://nishanthmenon.blogspot.com/2010/10/tired-of-ttysx-and-ttyox.html -- Regards, Nishanth Menon