[U-Boot] Trouble "booting using board info"

[Mikhail Zaturenskiy]

Hi Detlev,

>
> Well U-Boot called the entry function of the Linux kernel, so we are
> inside Linux territory.  The fact that you do not see any output on your
> terminal is not enough top infer that Linux does _nothing_.  For all you
> see, it may well boot into a fully functioning system without using a
> console on your serial port...
>
> Got it, thanks for helping me understand this better.

I did a post-mortem analysis of the kernel as you earlier suggested:

<6>Using Embedded Planet EP88xC machine description.
<0>Kernel panic - not syncing: Error: Failed to allocate 0x1
................0x800000..
<0>.
<4>Call Trace:.
<4>................69e0] show_stack...............................21f00]
[c001bcb4] panic+0x8c/0x1................ [c01fac70] lmb_alloc+0x0/0xc.
<4>[c0221f70] [c01................_page+0x60/0x74.
<4>[c0221f80] [c01a4484] pte_alloc_one_kernel+0x

Looks like it IS time to change the mailing list to linuxppc-dev :)

Mikhail Zaturenskiy