Re: [Gumstix-users] U-boot getting bad magic number

[Craig H. <cr...@gu...>]

On Jul 31, 2007, at 9:50 AM, Peter Lu wrote:

> Thank you for catching my typo with the console=, which I  
> inadvertently lost over time.  The 1161 build now boots much  
> faster, but the 1482 build (still) gets stuck at the "Freeing init  
> memory 120K" line.

This is probably because you used "erase" instead of "jerase" to  
erase the JFFS2 space in flash -- if so, then on the first reboot,  
linux has to scan the entire JFFS2 partition, erase each unused  
block, and write a JFFS2 cleanmarker in there.  This take quite a  
long time on XM or XLP gumstix -- just wait a few minutes and see if  
it comes back.

> Has there been some hardware-software incompatibility that was  
> introduced in the last year, such that the (old prototype) hardware  
> I have just doesn't run newer builds (without special mods)?  I  
> will be getting new hardware soon, so perhaps build 1482 will just  
> work (fingers crossed).

No, the new code should work on old hardware, as long as you selected  
the correct settings in the buildroot config -- ie you aren't  
building for verdex then deploying on a connex or something.

C