Unable to boot a kernel on a MPC8560
CORVELLER Mickael
mickael_corveller at hotmail.com
Wed May 17 01:12:54 EST 2006
Hello,
first of all, I am a newbie in embedded linux systems.
I'm trying to boot a board based on a MPC8560 (with a e500 core).
I'm using a RS232 console via a debug module connected to the SCC1 port of
the 8560.
The boot loader is U-Boot.
It appears that the transfert of the kernel from the host to target is OK
(I'm using TFTP).
Problems begin when I try to execute the kernel. The system appears to be
frozen.
I don't know if the board is really frozen or if I have "only" lost the
console.
I suspect that my error is situated in the load/execution addresses.
I've tried different couples of values : 0/0, 100000/100000, 10000/10000,
200000/200000, etc...
I've also tried different file format (uImage, zImage.elf, zImage.s ...)
I've tried two distributions : ELINOS and DENX.
I don't know what's happened because I lose the console .
Here is the result of one of my tests :
-> niot 0
Client IP Address (0 for unknown) = 192.168.001.126 ?
Client address mask (0 for unknown) = 255.255.255.000 ?
Server IP Address (0 for unknown) = 192.168.001.127 ?
File Format S(rec)/I(ntel)/B(in)/E(lf) = B ? e
Boot File Name (NULL for unknown) = pimage ? zimage.elf
Boot File Load address = 80000 ? 0
Boot File Execution address = 80000 ? 100000
Data update in progress...
-> nbo 0
Initialize ETH 0 in progress...
Physical link is up at 100f.
TFTP parameters :
Client IP Address 192.168.001.126
Server IP Address 192.168.001.127
Boot File Format E
Boot File Name zimage.elf
Boot File Load address 0
Boot File Execution address 100000
TFTP load in progress...
Packets : 2065
ELF information :
Loading .text @ 0x00800000 : 18620 bytes
Loading .data @ 0x00805000 : 966656 bytes
Clearing .bss @ 0x008F1000 : 8500 bytes
Bytes received = 1057082, Bytes loaded = 0
Low address = 800000, High address = 7FFFFF
After that, the console is died !
I could use some help in trying to understand what's going on.
Regards,
Mickaël
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