From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 11:05:49 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] linux kernel hangs without any error In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20110819110549.1d169b7e@skate> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hello, Le Fri, 19 Aug 2011 10:28:12 +0800, Vasanth Ragavendran 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 -- Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com