[U-Boot] U-Boot hangs after loading device tree

[Afzal Nadirshah]

Hi Pieter,
Thanks for your suggestion. I guess its halting at the point where u-boot is handing over to the Linux kernel image.
For doing the post mortem analysis, I am not able to obtain the address of the virtual

Regards,
Afzal Nadirshah

-----Original Message-----
From: Pieter [mailto:phenning at vastech.co.za]
Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 4:24 PM
To: Afzal Nadirshah
Subject: Re: [U-Boot] U-Boot hangs after loading device tree

Afzal Nadirshah wrote:
> Hi,
>        I am trying to bring linux up on our custom board, by loading the kernel.img , canynlands.dtb and Ramdisk onto the RAM using the serial port.
>        However the boot process is getting hung. The boot boot process stops after the following messages :
>
>
>      => run flash_self
> ## Booting kernel from Legacy Image at 1c000000 ...
>    Image Name:   Linux-2.6.25.7-00002-geaaf8db
>    Created:      2008-06-30  13:53:11 UTC
>    Image Type:   PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
>    Data Size:    1547704 Bytes =  1.5 MB
>    Load Address: 00000000
>    Entry Point:  00000000
>    Verifying Checksum ... OK
> ## Loading init Ramdisk from Legacy Image at 1c200000 ...
>    Image Name:   Simple Embedded Linux Framework
>    Created:      2002-10-24   9:30:38 UTC
>    Image Type:   PowerPC Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
>    Data Size:    1476478 Bytes =  1.4 MB
>    Load Address: 00000000
>    Entry Point:  00000000
>    Verifying Checksum ... OK
> ## Flattened Device Tree blob at 1c1e0000
>    Booting using the fdt blob at 0x1c1e0000
>    Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
>    Loading Ramdisk to 1fc78000, end 1fde077e ... OK
>    Loading Device Tree to 007f9000, end 007ff0b4 ... OK
>
>
> I have changed the kernel_addr, fdt_addr and the ramdisk_addr to the RAM addresses.
> This is the output of the printenv command :
>
>
> => printenv
> bootdelay=5
> baudrate=115200
> loads_echo=
> preboot=echo;echo Type "run flash_nfs" to mount root filesystem over NFS;echo
> hostname=canyonlands
> netdev=eth0
> nfsargs=setenv bootargs root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=${serverip}:${rootpath}
> ramargs=setenv bootargs root=/dev/ram rw
> addip=setenv bootargs ${bootargs} ip=${ipaddr}:${serverip}:${gatewayip}:${netmask}:${hostname}1
> addtty=setenv bootargs ${bootargs} console=ttyS0,${baudrate}
> addmisc=setenv bootargs ${bootargs}
> initrd_high=30000000
> kernel_addr_r=400000
> fdt_addr_r=800000
> ramdisk_addr_r=C00000
> hostname=canyonlands
> bootfile=canyonlands/uImage
> ramdisk_file=canyonlands/uRamdisk
> rootpath=/opt/eldk/ppc_4xxFP
> flash_self=run ramargs addip addtty addmisc;bootm ${kernel_addr} ${ramdisk_addr} ${fdt_addr}
> flash_nfs=run nfsargs addip addtty addmisc;bootm ${kernel_addr} - ${fdt_addr}
> net_nfs=tftp ${kernel_addr_r} ${bootfile}; tftp ${fdt_addr_r} ${fdt_file}; run nfsargs addip a}
> net_self_load=tftp ${kernel_addr_r} ${bootfile};tftp ${fdt_addr_r} ${fdt_file};tftp ${ramdisk_;
> net_self=run net_self_load;run ramargs addip addtty addmisc;bootm ${kernel_addr_r} ${ramdisk_a}
> fdt_file=canyonlands/canyonlands.dtb
> load=tftp 200000 canyonlands/u-boot.bin
> update=protect off 0x01000000 FFFFFFFF;era 0x01000000 FFFFFFFF;cp.b ${fileaddr} 0x01000000 ${fv
> upd=run load update
> nload=tftp 200000 canyonlands/u-boot-nand.bin
> nupdate=nand erase 0 100000;nand write 200000 0 100000;setenv filesize;saveenv
> nupd=run nload nupdate
> pciconfighost=1
> pcie_mode=RP:RP
> fdt_addr=1c1e0000
> ramdisk_addr=1c200000
> ram_root=run ramargs addip;bootm ${kernel_addr} ${ramdisk_addr} ${fdt_addr}
> ram_ws=1C000000
> kernel_addr=1c000000
> stdin=serial
> stdout=serial
> stderr=serial
> ver=U-Boot 2009.01 (Feb 25 2009 - 15:12:15)
> bootcmd=run flash_self
> bootargs=root=/dev/ram rw ip=::::canyonlands:eth0:off panic=1 console=ttyS0,115200
> filesize=1687BE
>
> Have anybody faced a similar problem?
>
I recently had a similar problem - the solution was a combination of DTS
tweaks and U-Boot defines for my board. have a look at the post mortem
debugging and recheck all your defines.

 <http://www.denx.de/wiki/view/DULG/LinuxPostMortemAnalysis>

or search the mailing list for my postings:
         [U-Boot] Custom MPC8548 boot using FDT problem
cheers pieter



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