From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: "Kevin A. Sapp" Cc: linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: EST sbc8260 boot debug From: Wolfgang Denk Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 11 Nov 2003 08:51:50 EST." <3FB0E976.20500@catapult.com> Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 15:04:34 +0100 Message-Id: <20031111140439.5C13AC5F59@atlas.denx.de> Sender: owner-linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: In message <3FB0E976.20500@catapult.com> you wrote: > ... > into some problems. This is a 8275 FADS board. Arrrrggghhhh!!! Why do you write "EST sbc8260" in the subject, then? > I have downloaded the simple-ramdisk-PPCBoot supplied This ancient ramdisk image is NOT suitable to a MPC82xx processor. I have removed it from our FTP server some time ago, and I recommend everybody to rm it, too. Please use a SELF image from the ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/LinuxPPC/usr/src/SELF/images/ directory instead. > I tftpboot the kernel to 100000, the simple-ramdisk to 300000 > set boot args to root=/dev/ram rw then bootm 100000 300000 > and still run into problems: It would have been extremely useful if you had actually shown HOW you do this, and the relevanlt lines for the kernel boot log. Instead you just send a useless snippet. > Here is the last part of the start up log > > ... ...which is more or less useless without the first part which shows which boot arguments you actually passed to the kernel. > devfs: v1.12c (20020818) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au) > devfs: devfs_debug: 0x0 > devfs: boot_options: 0x1 Try disabling devfs in your kernel configuration. Wolfgang Denk -- Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtime Systems, Embedded Linux Phone: (+49)-8142-4596-87 Fax: (+49)-8142-4596-88 Email: wd@denx.de "One day," said a dull voice from down below, "I'm going to be back in form again and you're going to be very sorry you said that. For a very long time. I might even go so far as to make even more Time just for you to be sorry in." - Terry Pratchett, _Small Gods_ ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/