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From: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
To: George Pontis <GPontis@z9.com>
Cc: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: Trouble booting kernel since 2012.12.1
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 10:27:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130211092758.GR1906@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <034201ce07e7$c23b9e90$46b2dbb0$@com>

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


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2013-02-10 23:38 George Pontis
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