[fedora-arm] Problem in loading kernel

[Niels de Vos]

Hi Khosro,

On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Khosro Taraghi
<ktaraghi at learn.senecac.on.ca> wrote:
> I have a beagleboard Rev C4 and when I try to load the kernel from memory
> with bootm command, it shows me an error in the middle of loading kernel.
> This is the error message:
>
> Waiting 1sec before mounting root device...
> mmc0: new high speed SD card at address b368
> mmcblk0: mmc0:b368 5     3.83 GiB
>  mmcblk0: p1
> VFS: Cannot open root device "b302" or unknown-block(179,2)
> Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available
> partitions:
> 1f00             512 mtdblock0 (driver?)
> 1f01            1920 mtdblock1 (driver?)
> 1f02             128 mtdblock2 (driver?)
> 1f03            4096 mtdblock3 (driver?)
> 1f04          255488 mtdblock4 (driver?)
> b300         4020224 mmcblk0 driver: mmcblk
>   b301         4016128 mmcblk0p1
> Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on
> unknown-block(179,2)
>
> I changed some environment variables to get result, but it failed with same
> error.
>
> Could you please help me if you have any idea. Thanks a lot in advance.

Try with the following arguments:

root=/dev/mmcblk0p1 rootwait


This assumes the root filesystem is on the first partition on the SD-card.

Cheers,
Niels