I just compiled and tested on Malta board a couple of days ago by using linux-mips.org linux_2_4 CVS tree. It worked fine. Given the new defconfig I checked in, you only need the following command line (assuming you have dhcp with bootp setup on your host): go . ip=any Jun On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 05:44:07PM +0100, ZhouY.external@infineon.com wrote: > 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. >
