[Buildroot] linux kernel hangs without any error

[Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>]

Hello,

Le Fri, 19 Aug 2011 10:28:12 +0800,
Vasanth Ragavendran <ragavendra.2007@gmail.com> a ?crit :

> I am using buildroot to build the linux kernel for my amd 32 bit board. I am
> using grub as the boot loader for this. After some work out I was able
> install grub and use it in the board. Now the boot loader works with out any
> problem. However kernel hangs without any error. I've attached this in jpg
> file. the kernel version i use is 2.6.38.7. What could be the reason i'm
> stuck as there are no errors also posted. i also created as mentioned in
> this website (under listing 4).
> http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-initrd/index.html.
> 
> The initrd work well and in the attachment u can see i've executed the
> 'exit' command from the initrd filesystem. however the real file system
> doesn't work. the files used by the initrd are the same as present in the
> real file system which is generated by buildroot. And i'm using ext2
> filesystem generated by buildroot and converting to ext3 because linux
> 2.6.38.7 doesn't recognize ext2. Kindly help. Am i missing any setting in
> the linux kernel config file?

See our first FAQ entry:
http://buildroot.org/downloads/buildroot.html#faq.

BTW, Linux 2.6.38.7 of course recognizes ext2, it just depends on how
it was configured.

Thomas
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