Re: [fedora-arm] Kernel-kirkwood 3.7.6-201 failing to boot

[Quentin Armitage]

My boot partition is VFAT. For some reason the factory u-boot on the
Dreamplug does not support EXT; I've always assumed that this was
because the Sheevaplug u-boot had problems with EXT (it couldn't load a
file if any part of it was more the 2Gb from the start of the
partition).

Quentin

On Wed, 2013-02-13 at 13:47 -0500, Paul Whalen wrote:

>  
>  ----- Original Message -----
>  > 
>  > I have installed kernel-kirkwood-3.7.6-201.armv5tel on three
>  > Dreamplugs, and none of them will boot, although they successfully
>  > boot 3.7.5-201.
>  > 
>  > The last messages on the console during the boot process are:
>  > 
>  > 
>  > Starting kernel ...
>  > 
>  > Uncompressing Linux... done, booting the kernel.
>  
>  Is your boot partition EXT or VFAT? 
>  Using a GuruPlug Server Plus I have seen that when using some kernels 
>  as well. Oddly some will boot from VFAT '/boot' only, while others will 
>  boot from EXT. They are loaded fine in each case, and only seem to fail 
>  when booting (or no other output is given).
>  I now use a VFAT partition for '/boot' and have not had an issue since.
>  
>  Paul
>  
>  
>  
>

Kernel-kirkwood 3.7.6-201 failing to boot

[Paul Whalen]

----- Original Message -----
>  My boot partition is VFAT. For some reason the factory u-boot on the
>  Dreamplug does not support EXT; I've always assumed that this was
>  because the Sheevaplug u-boot had problems with EXT (it couldn't
>  load a file if any part of it was more the 2Gb from the start of the
>  partition). 
The '3.7.6-201.fc18.armv5tel.kirkwood' boots ok for me on a GuruPlug Server
Plus. I'm using 'U-Boot 2010.12-03502-g0390ab0 (Oct 24 2011 - 14:53:00)'

Is anyone else having an issue?

Kernel-kirkwood 3.7.6-201 failing to boot

[Sean Omalley]

It works fine on the guruplug plus. Upgrade your firmware.
http://code.google.com/p/dreamplug/downloads/list
or you can follow the software link from the globalscales site.  


----- Original Message -----
>  From: Paul Whalen <pwhalen(a)redhat.com&gt;
>  To: Quentin Armitage <quentin(a)armitage.org.uk&gt;
>  Cc: arm(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
>  Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2013 10:49 AM
>  Subject: Re: [fedora-arm] Kernel-kirkwood 3.7.6-201 failing to boot
>  
>  
>  
>  ----- Original Message -----
> >  My boot partition is VFAT. For some reason the factory u-boot on the
> >  Dreamplug does not support EXT; I've always assumed that this was
> >  because the Sheevaplug u-boot had problems with EXT (it couldn't
> >  load a file if any part of it was more the 2Gb from the start of the
> >  partition).
>  
>  The '3.7.6-201.fc18.armv5tel.kirkwood' boots ok for me on a GuruPlug 
>  Server
>  Plus. I'm using 'U-Boot 2010.12-03502-g0390ab0 (Oct 24 2011 - 
>  14:53:00)'
>  
>  Is anyone else having an issue?
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