Kernel hangs on EP862-1.1 during boot

Jaap-Jan Boor jjboor at aimsys.nl
Thu Sep 4 17:11:08 EST 2003


Hi Jan,

What you could do is check of your board data that is passed to the kernel
is still valid in start_kernel.
Also, are you sure you have the kernel uart driver properly configured
(i.e. it works but you don't see anything)

Jaap-Jan

Jan Dominik Baranski wrote:
>
> 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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