Re: Kernel-kirkwood 3.7.6-201 failing to boot

[Quentin Armitage <quentin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

My boot partition is VFAT. For some reason the factory u-boot on the Dreamplug does not support EXT; I've always assumed that this was because the Sheevaplug u-boot had problems with EXT (it couldn't load a file if any part of it was more the 2Gb from the start of the partition).

Quentin

On Wed, 2013-02-13 at 13:47 -0500, Paul Whalen wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> > 
> > I have installed kernel-kirkwood-3.7.6-201.armv5tel on three
> > Dreamplugs, and none of them will boot, although they successfully
> > boot 3.7.5-201.
> > 
> > The last messages on the console during the boot process are:
> > 
> > 
> > Starting kernel ...
> > 
> > Uncompressing Linux... done, booting the kernel.
>
> Is your boot partition EXT or VFAT? 
> Using a GuruPlug Server Plus I have seen that when using some kernels 
> as well. Oddly some will boot from VFAT '/boot' only, while others will 
> boot from EXT. They are loaded fine in each case, and only seem to fail 
> when booting (or no other output is given).
> I now use a VFAT partition for '/boot' and have not had an issue since.
>
> Paul



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