[fedora-arm] Kernel-kirkwood 3.7.6-201 failing to boot
Quentin Armitage
quentin at armitage.org.uk
Thu Feb 14 06:37:47 UTC 2013
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
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