[U-Boot] Linux hangs after Starting kernel ...message

michael trimarchi at gandalf.sssup.it
Wed Sep 17 10:13:17 CEST 2008


Hi,


Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Batsayan Das,
>
> In message <OF51921713.AB3B2AEB-ON652574C7.001C2E1E-652574C7.001CF9E1 at tcs.com> you wrote:
>   
>> When we execute "bootm 0x5000000" command it gives the "Starting kernel 
>> ...". After that nothing is printed in the serial console. We have 
>> verified "http://www.denx.de/wiki/view/DULG/LinuxPostMortemAnalysis" that 
>> "__log_buf" gives the exact booting sequences what we used to get when 
>> running vmlinux.bin from BDI.
>>     
>
> This is no longer a U-Boot issue but a Linux kernel problem.
>
> On ARM systems, one of the top ranking reeasons for such  a  type  of
> problem  is  that you pass an incorrect/nonmatching machine ID to the
> kernel.
>
>   
I don't see uncompressing the linux kernel. Maybe is memory problem?
Try to use some memtest...

> Best regards,
>
> Wolfgang Denk
>
>   
Regards Michael


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