Frozen ! any idea ?

[Dave Wilhardt]

You might try disabling minicom's hardware and software flow control.  Been
there...

- Dave

Stefano Bodini wrote:

> Hi all ... just my little testimonial about the problem.
> Well, Linux and the little board were always working.
> The freeze actually was minicom on the host, used to "speak" to the console !!!
> I don't know why minicom freeze after 1 minute but sure I will not use it
> anymore !
>
> So Linux is working well on the board.
>
> Now I have to solve the problem to have the kernel running if compiled with
> the gdbserver option enabled.
>
> In order to try to debug something I enabled the KDGB in the kernel
> (following the instructions on the MontaVista documentation).
>
> I recompiled the kernel, no errors .. but when I try to load and start it :
>
> [Go 00400000]
> loaded at: 00410000 004A81F4
> relocated to: 00400000 004981F4
> board data at: 00495128 00495144
> relocated to: 004052C4 004052E0
> zimage at: 00405960 004945AA
> avail ram: 00499000 01000000
>
> Linux/PPC load: root=/dev/nfs rw ip=auto
> Uncompressing Linux...done.
> Now booting the kernel
>
> That's it.
> Stops. No warning, no errors .. just stops.
> I'm sure this is not a minicom problem this time ... any ideas ?
>
> Many many thanks in advance
>
> C'ya
>         Steve
>


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