another boot hang (not the jffs2 one)

[Peter Robinson]

> I'm seeing a hang during early boot of recent F11-XO images. Right now I
> have reproduced on freshly-reflashed 20090528 and 20090525, on 2
> different XOs. It is not the "Unknown filesystem jffs2" hang or the
> "Creating devices" hang. It is much earlier, before the kernel has even
> kicked the framebuffer.
>
> At the point of the hang, the output on screen is:
> Boot device: /nandflash:.......
> Loading ramdisk image from nand:\boot\initrd0.img ...
>
> (this screen is from the OpenFirmware boot process, the screen
> background is still grey, the Linux kernel does not appear to have
> become alive at all)
>
> It hangs at this point, with no extra output on serial console, and is
> unresponsive to OFW frame key for interruption.
>
> Is anyone else seeing this? (please don't confuse this with other boot
> hangs, where the screen contents are different)

Not yet, but its been a couple of weeks since I've tried rawhide on my
XO because I've been so busy with other stuff. Do you have a serial
console or jtag (which ever one the XO supports) to be able to get the
output before the framebuffer initiates?

Peter