Kerenel crashes every other Boot..

ravi.rao at rflelect.com ravi.rao at rflelect.com
Thu Aug 23 01:28:19 EST 2007


Hi,
  Some times it crashes and many times it comes back with an error as Junk 
in compressed Image..
Below is the screen dump..
**************** When it does not work **************************
BOOT MONITOR:
.. eth driver not initialized. command aborted
.. Invoking Linux PPC Kernel Loader at 0xfe800000
.. Boot Parms: 0x3f72314, Flags: 0x1014, Verbose: 0x3

loaded at:     FE800000 FEA16124
relocated to:  00400000 00616124
board data at: 03F72314 03F72510
relocated to:  00613000 006131FC
zimage at:     00404EDC 0061289C
avail ram:     00617000 04000000

Linux/PPC load: console=ttyS0,9600 ip=dhcp root=nfs
Uncompressing Linux...done.
Now booting the kernel
Linux version 2.6.21 (root at localhost.localdomain) (gcc version 4.1.0 
20060304 (TimeSys 4.1.0-3)) #27 Wed Aug 22 10:10:4
2 EDT 2007
MAC 0: 00:50:cc:0c:e2:30
MAC 1: 00:50:c2:0c:e2:31
Zone PFN ranges:
  DMA             0 ->    16384
  Normal      16384 ->    16384
early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges
    0:        0 ->    16384
Built 1 zonelists.  Total pages: 16256
Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,9600 root=/dev/rd/0 
ip=10.2.254.33:10.2.1.1:10.2.0.1:255.255.0.0:unknown:eth0
PID hash table entries: 256 (order: 8, 1024 bytes)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
Memory: 61952k available (1188k kernel code, 280k data, 1504k init, 0k 
highmem)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
Kernel panic - not syncing: junk in compressed archive
Rebooting in 180 seconds..

******************** When it works **************************
BOOT MONITOR:
.. eth driver not initialized. command aborted
.. Invoking Linux PPC Kernel Loader at 0xfe800000
.. Boot Parms: 0x3f72314, Flags: 0x1014, Verbose: 0x3

loaded at:     FE800000 FEA16124
relocated to:  00400000 00616124
board data at: 03F72314 03F72510
relocated to:  00613000 006131FC
zimage at:     00404EDC 0061289C
avail ram:     00617000 04000000

Linux/PPC load: console=ttyS0,9600 ip=dhcp root=nfs
Uncompressing Linux...done.
Now booting the kernel
Linux version 2.6.21 (root at localhost.localdomain) (gcc version 4.1.0 
20060304 (TimeSys 4.1.0-3)) #27 Wed Aug 22 10:10:4
2 EDT 2007
MAC 0: 00:50:cc:0c:e2:30
MAC 1: 00:50:c2:0c:e2:31
Zone PFN ranges:
  DMA             0 ->    16384
  Normal      16384 ->    16384
early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges
    0:        0 ->    16384
Built 1 zonelists.  Total pages: 16256
Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,9600 root=/dev/rd/0 
ip=10.2.254.33:10.2.1.1:10.2.0.1:255.255.0.0:unknown:eth0
PID hash table entries: 256 (order: 8, 1024 bytes)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
Memory: 61952k available (1188k kernel code, 280k data, 1504k init, 0k 
highmem)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
JFFS2 version 2.2. (NAND) (C) 2001-2006 Red Hat, Inc.
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered (default)
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
serial8250: ttyS0 at MMIO 0x0 (irq = 0) is a 16550A
serial8250: ttyS1 at MMIO 0x0 (irq = 1) is a 16550A
RAMDISK driver initialized: 1 RAM disks of 16384K size 1024 blocksize
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
i2c /dev entries driver
IBM IIC driver v2.1
ibm-iic0: using standard (100 kHz) mode
Freeing unused kernel memory: 1504k init
serial console detected.  Disabling virtual terminals.
init started:  BusyBox v0.60.2 (2003.04.29-11:32+0000) multi-call binary
Bummer, could not run '/etc/init.d/rcS': No such file or directory

Please press Enter to activate this console.
sh-2.05#

Ravishankar Govindarao
RFL Electronics Inc.
E-mail : Ravi.Rao at rflelect.com
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Wolfgang Reissnegger <wolfgang.reissnegger at xilinx.com> 
08/22/2007 11:15 AM

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Re: Kerenel crashes every other Boot..






Hi Ravi,

you need to provide more information, for example, where does the kernel
crash, any serial console output that you see when it crashes, etc.

Cheers,
   Wolfgang


ravi.rao at rflelect.com wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
>     I have a PPC 405EP custom target. I based most of my software on the
> EP405 Taihu reference and now I am able to load the 2.6.21 kernel and
> with a minimum initramfs I also get the busy box prompt. I see a strange
> poblem it fails(linux crashes) every other boot. Can any one please tell
> me what may be happening ???
> Thanks,
> Ravishankar Govindarao
> RFL Electronics Inc.
> E-mail : _Ravi.Rao at rflelect.com_ <mailto:Ravi.Rao at rflelect.com>
> Voice: 973.334.3100 Ext. 233
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