Re: Fedora 17 and Fedora 18 both hang on Dreamplug

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On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 2:37 PM, Niels de Vos <devos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 4:03 AM, Scott Sullivan <scott@xxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 10/02/2012 07:40 PM, Eric Floehr wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm a Fedora desktop user and have a couple of Dreamplugs with a JTAG
>>> I'm working with and trying to get Fedora on.
>>>
>>> However, both the Fedora 17 image and the current nightly Fedora 18
>>> image soft lockup on boot, at about the same place.
>>
>>
>> I've been having the same problem with mine, but haven't been working on it.
>> Now there is just now new kernel released, so that's worth a shot.
>>
>>
Good luck,
>>> I was wondering what the next steps in debugging this would be, and if I
>>> can help in any way to test builds, file bugs, etc. I would love to
>>> contribute and help out and use a Dreamplug as a test box. I'm new to
>>> ARM and embedded systems, but am willing to learn (would love to know
>>> how to build a uImage, SD card .xz file, etc.)
>>
>>
>> Well, from your logs the issue is happening after the systems has booted,
>> (Kernel is done, and Dracut has already mounted the rootfs and passed
>> control to init).
>>
>> Try adding 'single' to your boot args to go directly to a root shell.
>> Try blacklisting the nand kernel module (as that's where it's failing if I'm
>> reading it right)? As far as I know the DreamPlug has no nand flash.
>
> Yeah, my understanding is as well that the orion_nand module is
> causing these troubles. I do not know if the DreamPlug has a NAND or
> not, but loading the module is surely optional.
>
> You can try to do the following steps:
> 1. add the following "kernel" parameter (it's actually dracut acting
> on it): rd.driver.blacklist=orion_nand
> 2. create a file in /etc/modprobe.d/disable-orion_nand.conf with the
> contents "blacklist orion_nand"
>
> This should prevent the orion_nand module from getting loaded and
> hopefully your DreamPlugs boot a little further.

If the problem is the orion_nand module and the nand isn't used/needed
for standard option I'll quite happily just disable it from the
config.

Peter
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