uImage doesn't boot

Sascha Hauer s.hauer at pengutronix.de
Thu Aug 22 02:46:40 EDT 2013


Hi Wouter,

On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 02:30:17PM +0200, Vanhauwaert Wouter wrote:
> Hello
> 
> Before, I was working with Barebox 2013.05, which worked fine. Now I updated my sources to barebox 2013.07, but my kernel doesn't boot anymore. Barebox itself works as expected. When I do:
> bootm -v /mnt/tftp/uImage
>    Image Name:   Linux-2.6.35.3-01169-gbc81590-di
>    Created:      2013-06-03  13:29:30 UTC
>    OS:           Linux
>    Architecture: ARM
>    Type:         Kernel Image
>    Compression:  uncompressed
>    Data Size:    2834488 Bytes = 2.7 MiB
>    Load Address: 70008000
>    Entry Point:  70008000
> 
> Loading OS U-Boot uImage '/mnt/tftp/uImage'
> OS image is at 0x70008000-0x702bc037
> Passing control to ARM Linux uImage handler
> 
> Starting kernel at 0x70008000...
> commandline: console=ttymxc4,115200   mtdparts=mxc_nand:3M(nand0.systemkernel),-(nand0.root);m25p0:384k(m25p0.barebox)ro,128k(m25p0.bareboxenv),3M(m25p0.recoverykernel)ro,512k(m25p0.storage)
> arch_number: 3297

Your arch_number suggests you are working on a Garz & Fricke Vincell
board. Is this correct?

> 
> 
> And that's it, it doesn't do anything after it. Althought this works
> with the previous barebox. What can cause this?

I have no quick idea. What you can always do is bisecting the problem,
but what I would do before is enabling earlyprintk in the kernel and
passing 'earlyprintk' to the kernel commandline. Often this gives a good
hint what's wrong.

Sascha

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