Re: ml310 kernel2.6 booting problems

["Grant Likely" <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>]

On 1/25/08, greenlean <jmgomez@atc.ugr.es> wrote:
>
> I'm also having some problem with my systemace file system. I'm working with
> secretlab git, and I try to mount the CF card with xsysace and with xsa, but
> in both cases it can't mount the rootfs:
>
> Linux/PPC load: console=ttyS0,9600 root=/dev/xsa3 rw
> :
> :
> :
> [    2.777706] xsysace xsysace.0: Xilinx SystemACE revision 1.0.12
> [    2.849967] xsysace xsysace.0: capacity: 986320 sectors
> [    2.913383]  xsa: unknown partition table

You're definitely not having a filesystem problem; it's a partition
table problem.  Either the partition table is corrupt or the kernel
doesn't understand the type of partition table, or the system ace
isn't able to read the CF correctly (hardware problem).

g.

> :
> :
> [    3.398810] Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the
> availa:
> [    3.499476] fe00     493160 xsa (driver?)
> [    3.547926] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on
> unkn)
>
> Does this mean that I have configured incorrectly the file system options in
> the kernel??
> I have read that the solution to this is to change the DOS/FAT/NT Filesystem
> option to the below configuration:
>
>       <*> Second extended fs support
> DOS/FAT/NT Filesystems
>        < > MSDOS fs support
>        < > VFAT (Windows-95) fs support
>        < > NTFS file system support
>   [*] Advanced partition selection
>          [*]   PC BIOS (MSDOS partition tables) support
> I've already tested this configuration:
>
>       <*> Second extended fs support
> DOS/FAT/NT Filesystems
>        <*> MSDOS fs support
>        <*> VFAT (Windows-95) fs support
>        < > NTFS file system support
>   [] Advanced partition selection
>
>
> My CF card has the following structure:
>
> Disco /dev/sdc: 521 MB, 521773056 bytes
> 16 cabezas, 63 sectores/pistas, 1011 cilindros
> Unidades = cilindros de 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x00000000
>
> Disposit. Inicio    Comienzo      Fin      Bloques  Id  Sistema
> /dev/sdc1               1         400      201568+   6  FAT16
> /dev/sdc2             401         500       50400   82  Linux swap / Solaris
> /dev/sdc3             501        1011      257544   83  Linux
>
> I'm also wondering if I should use xsysace or xsa, because I have search in
> the file xsysace.c for the name of the device and It is named as xsysace. Am
> I right, and should I use xsysace? Or this name isn't related with the /dev
> file??
> $ grep xsysace xsysace.c
>
>         .name = "xsysace",
>         ace_major = register_blkdev(ace_major, "xsysace");
>                 printk(KERN_WARNING "xsysace: register_blkdev() failed\n");
>         unregister_blkdev(ace_major, "xsysace");
>
> I'm going to reformat my CF card and test it,maybe the partition table is
> corrupted, but fdisk is not saying anything at all.
>
> Thanks
>
>
> Grant Likely-2 wrote:
> >
> > On 1/16/08, Joachim Meyer <Jogi95@web.de> wrote:
> >> Hi
> >>
> >> I made an Ace file with my Kernel and load it with the Flash Card.
> >> I made the Initial release CF image on the card and copied my ace file in
> >> an folder, from which I boot with the DIP-Switch.
> >> If I used
> >> "console=ttyUL0 ,9600 root=/dev/xsysace/disc0/part2 rw "
> >
> > try root=/dev/xsa2
> > Also, the ',9600' is unnecessary with the uartlite.
> >
> >>
> >> I tried to use this:
> >> "console=ttyUL0 ,9600 root=fe02 rw"
> >> and with this, after making ace-file etc. I get:
> >> [   12.862678] EXT3 FS on xsa2, internal journal
> >> [   12.899229] EXT3-fs: recovery complete.
> >> [   12.982635] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
> >> [   13.038505] VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem).
> >> [   13.094113] Freeing unused kernel memory: 96k init
> >> [   13.159079] Warning: unable to open an initial console.
> >
> > You're probably missing the /dev/console device file
> >
> > g.
> >
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> > Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.
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