kernel stops after the msg, "Now booting the kernel"

kernel stops after the msg, "Now booting the kernel"

[Q-ha Park]

I've been using the kernel 2.4.17 for redwood5 from montavista. recently, I tried to use the 2.4.21-pre5 kernel, but it stops right after the msg: "Now booting the kernel".
----------------
Loading file "vmlinux.tree.img" by TFTP for net boot ...
Transfer completed, 890912 bytes received
Loaded successfully ...
Entry point at 0x500000 ...

loaded at:     00500000 005DB1F8
relocated to:  00400000 004DB1F8
board data at: 004D8128 004D8168
relocated to:  00405278 004052B8
zimage at:     00405800 004D719E
avail ram:     004DC000 02000000

Linux/PPC load: console=ttyS0,115200
Uncompressing Linux...done.
Now booting the kerne
<stopped>

any ideas?

thanks in advance.

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Q-ha Park


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Re: kernel stops after the msg, "Now booting the kernel"

[Q-ha Park]

>
> I've been using the kernel 2.4.17 for redwood5 from montavista. recently, I tried to use the 2.4.21-pre5 kernel, but it stops right after the msg: "Now booting the kernel".
> ----------------
<snip>
> Linux/PPC load: console=ttyS0,115200
> Uncompressing Linux...done.
> Now booting the kerne
> <stopped>
>
works with the default config file in arch/ppc/configs/redwood5_defconfig.
okay, that was stupid. i'm going to go out and commit a suicide now.

BTW, FYI, to get the nfs root mount to work, i had to append the cmdline paramters like:
"root=nfs rw ip=auto"

at first, i didn't add that since netroot_string is declared in misc-embedded.c and the old kernel i had mounted the root filesystem without the 'root=' parm.

well, that was a change.


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pci_alloc_consistent size more than 4mb

[bhupinder sahran]

Hi guys

I am using pci_alloc_consistent system call in one of
the driver. I need to get 16 mb of consistent memory.
But i am seeing that i can get maximum 4mb of memory
through pci_alloc_consistent or get_free_pages. Is
there anyway we can get 16mb of consistent memory from
the OS. I am using kernel version 2.4.7.

Can any of u through a pointer here.

Thanx
Bhupi


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Re: pci_alloc_consistent size more than 4mb

[Matt Porter]

On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 07:21:22PM -0800, bhupinder sahran wrote:
>
> Hi guys
>
> I am using pci_alloc_consistent system call in one of
> the driver. I need to get 16 mb of consistent memory.
> But i am seeing that i can get maximum 4mb of memory
> through pci_alloc_consistent or get_free_pages. Is
> there anyway we can get 16mb of consistent memory from
> the OS. I am using kernel version 2.4.7.

Um, 2MB on 2.4. MAX_ORDER=10 as far as I recall back on 2.4.
On 2.5 it's 11 and you can get 4MB max.

Please read the mailing list...I answered this question just
a few hours ago.

-Matt

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