[ARMedslack] ARMedslack hangs during boot on Dreamplug

Davide louigi600 at yahoo.it
Thu Feb 9 08:38:10 UTC 2012


If you can boot the image via tftp but subsequently not from flash then maybe it war not flashed correctly.
Are you erasing partition before writing kernel to it ?



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 Da: Jim Hammack <hammack at GotSlack.org>
A: armedslack at lists.armedslack.org 
Inviato: Giovedì 9 Febbraio 2012 3:36
Oggetto: Re: [ARMedslack] ARMedslack hangs during boot on Dreamplug
 

Brennan,

  Thanks for the suggestion, but I downloaded the files again
        and made sure they were binary transfers, and still no luck.  I
        also downloaded armedslack-current (I had the original
        armedslack-13.37 that I used on my sheevaplug) but still no
        change.  I'm confused because the kernel boots after the initial
        tftpboot and I can install software, configure the system, etc.,
        but when I try to reboot the system hangs.

                                                Jim

On 02/06/2012 08:32 PM, Brennan Newman wrote: 
Jim, 
>  I had this same issue and it was driving me crazy, it is a simple fix (at least for me).  Simply re-download the kernel images and make sure that you are transferring it over in binary.  I had used Filezilla to get my install and it was set to transfer all files in ascii by default which according to many people in the world today mangles binary files pretty badly.  Hope this helps.
>
>
>Brennan
>
>
>On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 8:27 PM, Jim Hammack <hammack at gotslack.org> wrote:
>
>I've been trying to install ARMedslack on my Dreamplug (ser: 1148-XXXXXX) by following Stuart's excellent instructions in INSTALL_KIRKWOOD.TXT, but have been unable to get the system to boot.   I believe it is due to a problem with my u-boot which I scrambled earlier.  I have been able to find only one version of u-boot that will run on this machine (the guruplug version from http://www.armedslack.org/maint_kirkwooduboot loads but hangs after a 'reset').  This one works:
>>
>>Marvell>> version
>>
>>U-Boot 2011.03-00012-g1a93b51-dirty-pingtoo-v1.2 (Jun 15
            2011 - 22:44:57)
>>Marvell-DreamPlug
>>armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi-gcc (Gentoo 4.4.4-r2 p1.3,
            pie-0.4.5) 4.4.4
>>GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.20.1.20100303
>>
>>I am following Stuart's instructions with two exceptions:
>>
>>1. I am using dream-2.6.38.4-uImage (renamed
            uImage-kirkwood) from with-linux instead of uImage-kirkwood
            from the distribution due to a known problem with
            uImage-kirkwood on the Dreamplug.  (http://lists.armedslack.org/2011-August/000978.html)
>>2.  I am using a fat16 boot partition rather that the ext2
            partition Stuart uses in his documentation, so I have
            changed all references to "ext2load" to "fatload" in the
            bootcmd
>>
>>The system loads uinitrd-kirkwood okay, then loads
            uImage-kirkwood (which is really dream-2.6.38.4-uImage), but
            hangs after:
>>
>>"Uncompressing Linux... done, booting the kernel."
>>
>>I don't think this is the problem, but does anyone see any
            problems with my u-boot variables?  Also, I've read that
            newer Dreamplugs (#114 and later) have some differences from
            the earlier version.  Could this be why the majority of
            u-boot versions I've found do not run on this machine?  Any
            ideas on where I can find a suitable u-boot? I tried the
            version referenced here:
>>(http://www.newit.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=1977.0) but that version hangs also.
>>
>>Any input is appreciated!
>>
>>                               Thanks,
>>                                   Jim
>>
>>printenv and boot details follow:
>>
>>Marvell>> printenv
>>arcNumber=2659
>>baudrate=115200
>>bootargs_console=console=ttyS0,115200
>>bootargs_root=root=/dev/sda3 waitforroot=10 rootfs=ext4
>>bootcmd=setenv bootargs $(bootargs_console)
            $(bootargs_root); run bootcmd_slk ; reset
>>bootcmd_slk=usb start;fatload usb 0:1 0x01100000
            /uinitrd-kirkwood;fatload usb 0:1 0x00800000
            /uImage-kirkwood;bootm 0x00800000 0x01100000
>>bootdelay=3
>>eth1addr=02:50:43:ba:45:cb
>>ethact=egiga0
>>ethaddr=00:DE:AD:C0:FF:EE
>>ipaddr=192.168.2.1
>>mainlineLinux=yes
>>serial_num=DS2-1148-000934
>>serverip=192.168.2.7
>>stderr=serial
>>stdin=serial
>>stdout=serial
>>
>>Environment size: 561/65532 bytes
>>Marvell>> reset
>>
>>U-Boot 2011.03-00012-g1a93b51-dirty-pingtoo-v1.2 (Jun 15
            2011 - 22:44:57)
>>Marvell-DreamPlug
>>
>>SoC:   Kirkwood 88F6281_A1
>>DRAM:  512 MiB
>>SF: Got idcodes
>>00000000: c2 20 15 c2 20    . ..
>>SF: Detected MX25L1605D with page size 256, total 2 MiB
>>In:    serial
>>Out:   serial
>>Err:   serial
>>Net:   egiga0, egiga1
>>88E1121 Initialized on egiga0
>>88E1121 Initialized on egiga1
>>Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0
>>(Re)start USB...
>>USB:   Register 10011 NbrPorts 1
>>USB EHCI 1.00
>>scanning bus for devices... EHCI timed out on TD -
            token=0x80008c80
>>4 USB Device(s) found
>>      scanning bus for storage devices... Device NOT ready
>>  Request Sense returned 02 3A 00
>>2 Storage Device(s) found
>>reading /uinitrd-kirkwood
>>
>>5755094 bytes read
>>reading /uImage-kirkwood
>>
>>2033192 bytes read
>>## Booting kernel from Legacy Image at 00800000 ...
>>  Image Name:   Linux-2.6.38.4-kirkwood
>>  Image Type:   ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
>>  Data Size:    2033128 Bytes = 1.9 MiB
>>  Load Address: 00008000
>>  Entry Point:  00008000
>>  Verifying Checksum ... OK
>>## Loading init Ramdisk from Legacy Image at 01100000 ...
>>  Image Name:   Slackware ARM Initial RAM disk f
>>  Image Type:   ARM Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
>>  Data Size:    5755030 Bytes = 5.5 MiB
>>  Load Address: 00000000
>>  Entry Point:  00000000
>>  Verifying Checksum ... OK
>>  Loading Kernel Image ... OK
>>OK
>>
>>Starting kernel ...
>>
>>Uncompressing Linux... done, booting the kernel.
>>
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