Problems booting in ML403

Hello,

I am having problems while trying to boot my linux kernel 2.6.24-rc3 ( secretlab git). After some days studying this list and other related documents/wikis about how to make work a linux kernel in my ML403, I managed to make it work partially.

I am using ELDK 4.1 "uclibc" as a cross compiler. I have also used ELDK rootfs in my compactflash, when I boot it hangs at some point. This is my console output:

loaded at: 00400000 005981A0 board data at: 00596124 005961A0 relocated to: 004040DC 00404158 zimage at: 00404ECD 00595EB8 avail ram: 00599000 04000000

Linux/PPC load: console=ttyS0,9600 console=tty0,9600 console=ttyUL0,9600 root=/d

ev/xsa2 rw init=/sbin/init                                                     Uncompressing Linux...done.                                                    Now booting the kernel                                                         [    0.000000] Linux version 2.6.24-rc3-gd7ed933b-dirty (ios@xxx) (gcc vers
ion 4.0.0 (DENX ELDK 4.1 4.0.0)) #6 Mon Feb 4 14:06:43 CET 2008                [    0.000000] Xilinx ML403 Reference System (Virtex-4 FX)                     [    0.000000] Zone PFN ranges:                                                [    0.000000]   DMA             0 ->    16384                                 [    0.000000]   Normal      16384 ->    16384                                 [    0.000000]   HighMem     16384 ->    16384                                 [    0.000000] Movable zone start PFN for each node                            [    0.000000] early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges                             [    0.000000]     0:        0 ->    16384                                     [    0.000000] Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on.  Total pag
es: 16256                                                                      [    0.000000] Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,9600 console=tty0,9600 console
=ttyUL0,9600 root=/dev/xsa2 rw init=/sbin/init                                 [    0.000000] Xilinx INTC #0 at 0x41200000 mapped to 0xFDFFE000               [    0.000000] PID hash table entries: 256 (order: 8, 1024 bytes)              [    0.000449] Console: colour dummy device 80x25                              [    0.000546] console [tty0] enabled                                          [    0.002982] Dentry cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)   [    0.004906] Inode-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)    [    0.038813] Memory: 61312k available (2740k kernel code, 784k data, 112k init
, 0k highmem)                                                                  [    0.039615] SLUB: Genslabs=11, HWalign=32, Order=0-1, MinObjects=4, CPUs=1, N

odes=1

[    0.220715] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512                             [    0.231019] net_namespace: 64 bytes                                         [    0.244246] NET: Registered protocol family 16                              [    0.368073] NET: Registered protocol family 2                               [    0.461661] IP route cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)  [    0.467834] TCP established hash table entries: 2048 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
[    0.468813] TCP bind hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)        [    0.469483] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 2048 bind 2048)        [    0.469711] TCP reno registered                                             [    0.493382] sysctl table check failed: /kernel/l2cr .1.31 Missing strategy  [    0.493825] Call Trace:                                                     [    0.493957] [c3c11e80] [c0008380] show_stack+0x4c/0x174 (unreliable)        [    0.494322] [c3c11eb0] [c0037170] set_fail+0x50/0x68                        [    0.494637] [c3c11ed0] [c00377f8] sysctl_check_table+0x670/0x6bc            [    0.494922] [c3c11f10] [c003780c] sysctl_check_table+0x684/0x6bc            [    0.495203] [c3c11f50] [c0024e7c] register_sysctl_table+0x5c/0xac           [    0.495533] [c3c11f70] [c034ab68] register_ppc_htab_sysctl+0x18/0x2c        [    0.495864] [c3c11f80] [c034484c] kernel_init+0xc8/0x284                    [    0.496130] [c3c11ff0] [c0004b18] kernel_thread+0x44/0x60                   [    0.630804] Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 [email protected]).        [    0.642747] JFS: nTxBlock = 479, nTxLock = 3832                             [    0.650497] SGI XFS with ACLs, large block numbers, no debug enabled        [    0.687400] io scheduler noop registered                                    [    0.687710] io scheduler anticipatory registered                            [    0.687880] io scheduler deadline registered                                [    0.689104] io scheduler cfq registered (default)                           [    2.129848] Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing

disabled

[    2.150840] serial8250.0: ttyS0 at MMIO 0x40401003 (irq = 3) is a 16550A    [    2.151248] console [ttyS0] enabled                                         [    5.425398] RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 block

size

[    5.532502] loop: module loaded                                             [    5.572824] xsysace xsysace.0: Xilinx SystemACE revision 1.0.12             [    5.645558] xsysace xsysace.0: capacity: 1019088 sectors                    [    5.710732]  xsa: xsa1 xsa2 xsa3                                            [    5.763112] Xilinx SystemACE device driver, major=254                       [    5.826421] nbd: registered device at major 43                              [    5.921820] XTemac: using sgDMA mode.                                       [    5.966225] XTemac: using TxDRE mode                                        [    6.009573] XTemac: using RxDRE mode                                        [    6.052783] XTemac: buffer descriptor size: 32768 (0x8000)                  [    6.120289] XTemac: (buffer_descriptor_init) phy: 0x3d80000, virt: 0xff100000

, size: 0x8000 [ 6.231949] eth%d: XTemac: No PHY detected. Assuming a PHY at address 0 [ 6.313017] eth0: Dropping NETIF_F_SG since no checksum feature. [ 6.392778] eth0: Xilinx TEMAC #0 at 0x81200000 mapped to 0xC5060000, irq=0 [ 6.476905] eth0: XTemac id 1.0f, block id 5, type 8 [ 6.539381] NFTL driver: nftlcore.c $Revision: 1.98 $, nftlmount.c $Revision:
1.41 $ [ 6.633905] INFTL: inftlcore.c $Revision: 1.19 $, inftlmount.c $Revision: 1.1
8 $

[    6.725083] SSFDC read-only Flash Translation layer                         [    6.791347] i8042.c: No controller found.                                   [    6.843298] mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice                     [    6.912775] i2c /dev entries driver                                         [    6.958352] TCP cubic registered                                            [    6.998344] NET: Registered protocol family 1                               [    7.051264] NET: Registered protocol family 17                              [    7.110285] RPC: Registered udp transport module.                           [    7.167370] RPC: Registered tcp transport module.                           [    9.302726] kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds                  [    9.408788] EXT3 FS on xsa2, internal journal                               [    9.461599] EXT3-fs: recovery complete.                                     [    9.547744] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.             [    9.619378] VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem).                            [    9.675834] Freeing unused kernel memory: 112k init                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I actually had tried before with the original rootfs that comes with the given montavista demo, and I got this:

(...)

[ 12.906329] kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
[   12.972902] EXT3-fs warning: maximal mount count reached, running e2fsck is r

ecommended

[   13.109355] EXT3 FS on xsa2, internal journal                               [   13.162196] EXT3-fs: recovery complete.                                     [   13.247717] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.             [   13.319357] VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem).                            [   13.375883] Freeing unused kernel memory: 112k init                         [   13.441190] Warning: unable to open an initial console.                     [   19.728949] eth0: XTemac: Options: 0xb8f2                                   [   31.747487] eth0: XTemac: Not able to set the speed to 1000 (status: 0x148) [   41.806572] eth0: XTemac: Not able to set the speed to 100 (status: 0x148)  [   51.864570] eth0: XTemac: Not able to set the speed to 10 (status: 0x148)   [   51.946095] eth0: XTemac: could not negotiate speed                         [   52.004713] eth0: XTemac: Send Threshold = 16, Receive Threshold = 2        [   52.080998] eth0: XTemac: Send Wait bound = 1, Receive Wait bound = 1       [   64.670479] eth0: XTemac: PHY Link carrier lost.                      

Stopping here. Any ideas? Is there a problem with my eldk rootfs?

Thanks in advance!

<snip>

What happens if you try init=/bin/sh?

What does your /etc/inittab look like?

It looks like the system is booting, but inittab might not be starting any processes attached to the serial console.

Cheers,
g.

Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.

It seems that the multiple "console=" parameters in the kernel were the problem. I have substituted for only

console=ttyS0,9600

Now I have managed to boot it completely.

Thank you!