On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 03:38:41PM -0800, George Pontis wrote: > Having some trouble booting Linux from recent versions of barebox, and need > some pointers about where to look. > > I'm working with custom hardware based on the i.MX53. It is roughly > comparable to the i.MX53 LOCO board, and I started with that board support > as a base for my own port. Up through barebox 2012.12.1 things were working > well. However, with the 2013.01 and 2013.02 releases I can't get the kernel > to boot successfully. It always hangs after displaying the arch number, but > before posting the message "Booting Linux on physical CPU 0". All the lines > displayed up to that point are identical. I have tried booting a kernel via > TFTP and root FS via NFS. Also with the rootfs loaded as an initrd. The same > barebox environment, kernel, and rootfs works in both modes when I'm running > 2012.12.1 or 2012.11. > > I see that a new environment has been introduced during this time, but did > not do anything to move over to it. Could this be the source of my problem, > or need I look elsewhere ? Try booting with bootm -v -v Also you could enable earlyprintk support in the kernel and pass the 'earlyprintk' parameter on the kernel command line. Sascha -- Pengutronix e.K. | | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | Peiner Str. 6-8, 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 | _______________________________________________ barebox mailing list barebox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/barebox
