I tried again. The result is same. The green LED display shows 'LINUX' not 'LINUX on malta'. All the status LED are green except the LED rst is off. There are 2 kernel images(el and eb), one of them is vmlinux-2.2.12.mips.malta.eb-01.05.srec, which is the current one. I double checked my console and its baud rate is 38400. From this symptom, what kind of conclusion can you draw? Best regards, Yidan -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: ncrook [mailto:ncrook@micron.com] Gesendet am: Donnerstag, 27. Februar 2003 17:25 An: Zhou Yidan (COM AC CE M external) Betreff: RE: MIPS Malta board Linux installation Hmm, well, for a start, you can just boot like this: go . console=ttyS0,38400 .. your boot isn't getting anywhere near far enough to care about IP addresses and nfs root disks; Once you get far enough to see a message about "attempting to mount root file system" then you can start worrying about ip and nfsroot arguments. ..take a look at the green 8-character display (U42). If it is scrolling the text "linux on malta" then the kernel is almost certainly up and running, and I would suspect your serial port settings are wrong in your terminal emulator. If not, check you're using a big-endian kernel for a malta. that's all I can think of. Happy hunting Neal. -----Original Message----- From: ZhouY.external@infineon.com [mailto:ZhouY.external@infineon.com] Sent: 27 February 2003 16:03 To: ncrook@micron.com Subject: AW: MIPS Malta board Linux installation Hi Neal, First, thanks a lot! Second, I tried as you mentioned, but the result is still same--screens of rubbish characters. Any other solutions? Best regards, Yidan -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: ncrook [mailto:ncrook@micron.com] Gesendet am: Donnerstag, 27. Februar 2003 16:36 An: Zhou Yidan (COM AC CE M external) Betreff: RE: MIPS Malta board Linux installation >>Start = 0x80100608, range = (0x80100000,0x8024015f), format = SREC >>YAMON> go . nfsroot=192.168.149.1:/c/linux/mipseb ip=192.168.149.116 >> >>LINUX started... >>EURfÐñoeíï>ßüÿû_ÿÿö~ÿÿ¿ßÿë¬RÿßïþëÿÛþïùúßm»>ÿÿÿûÿë®Þýí}®¿ùýoÞ÷ÿï?mÿêó¯Íëýïÿ ³ÿ >>ÿÝûïî¯÷ÿïÿûÿÏÿÿ¿¯ÿý»ºÿgÿ¿ÿ~ÿÿßþÿûþêþÿ÷ÿÿïÿê÷×¢ÿh«Ïÿßýïÿÿþûÿÿýûÿ{ÿ®ÿÿÿÿß÷/ó ÿí looks like your serial port baud rate is wrong. At some stage, the current setting (left by YAMON) gets overwritten by UART setup in Linux. Try changing: go . nfsroot=192.168.149.1:/c/linux/mipseb ip=192.168.149.116 to: go . nfsroot=192.168.149.1:/c/linux/mipseb ip=192.168.149.116 console=ttyS0,38400 (38400 is the baud rate.. use the value you want) Just my guess.. worth as much as you paid for it!! Neal.
