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From: Anand Gadiyar <gadiyar@ti.com>
Subject: RE: omap3evm does not boot after 2.6.38-rc1
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 09:42:19 +0530
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To: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>, Sung Hee Park <shpark7@stanford.edu>
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Tony Lindgren wrote:
> * Sung Hee Park <shpark7@stanford.edu> [110216 14:18]:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm having a problem with booting the linux kernel on my omap3evm. It
> > halts after saying "Uncompressing Linux... done, booting the kernel."
> > on boot. I had a similar problem with 2.6.37, but after changing the
> > name of the serial port devices from /dev/ttyS* to /dev/ttyO*, it
> > worked. Does anyone experiencing this problem again with 2.6.38
> > kernels? Please let me know if you have any idea what might have gone
> > wrong.
>
> If you have 2.6.38-rc1 booting, maybe try running git bisect on it
> to find out where it breaks?
>
> Tony

Enable CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK, and add the word earlyprintk to your bootargs.
This should help get some prints on the debug UART which might help
debug this.

- Anand