Re: Kernel hangs on EP862-1.1 during boot

[Jan Dominik Baranski <jdb2@ece.msstate.edu>]

Thanks for the help. Until some of you mentioned it, I didn't even think
the linuxppc kernels were any different from the kernel.org
kernel+patches. After some wrestling with BitKeeper, I've got
linuxppc_2_4_devel working great.

Thanks again

-Jan

Steven Blakeslee wrote:
> I got the linuxppc_2_4_devel tree at http://ppc.bkbits.net/ to boot with no
> problem.  The compiler I used was ELDK.  The config file was
> arch/ppc/configs/rpxcllf_defconfig.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jan Dominik Baranski [mailto:jdb2@ece.msstate.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 6:02 PM
> To: linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org
> Subject: Kernel hangs on EP862-1.1 during boot
>
> Hello all,
> I'm having trouble getting a 2.4.22 kernel to boot on an Embedded Planet
> EP862-1.1 board (based on an MPC860). I get this:
> ---
> Loaded addresses 00400000 through 0049FFFF.
>  >go
> [Go 00400000]
>
> loaded at:     00400000 004A31F4
> relocated to:  00180000 002231F4
> board data at: 00220128 00220144
> relocated to:  001862E0 001862FC
> zimage at:     001868A0 0021F3EC
> avail ram:     00224000 01000000
>
> Linux/PPC load: console=ttyS0,9600
> Uncompressing Linux...done.
> Now booting the kernel
>
> <just hangs here>
>
> ---
> I've searched the archives, but no one seems to have this board/problem
> combination. I've made sure the watchdog timer is disabled and that the
> IMMR (0xfa200000) is set correctly. Being pretty new to this, I don't
> really know where else to look. Maybe something related to m8xx_board_info?
>
> The thing is, I've been able to get an old kernel (2.4.7) from Timesys
> that's configured for an RPX Classic board to boot correctly. I just
> can't figure out what they may have done that I haven't.
>
> Any suggestions??
>
> Thanks
>
> -Jan
>
>


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