From: Kim H. <ki...@ki...> - 2004-07-23 23:31:55
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> At the u-boot prompt, type > > set bootcmd fsload a2000000 boot/uImage\;bootm a2000000 > set bootargs console=ttyS0,115200n8 root=1f02 rootfstype=jffs2 noinitrd > reboot=cold,hard > save > > then reboot -- you should be good now. The problem is that the boot > process has changed from the original distribution shipped with the > 'stix to the current one in buildroot -- you need to change u-boot's > boot script to adjust. the "save" will save it for future boots, so > you only need to do it once. Ok, this worked. However, it booted to a kernel that required a root password and I didn't put one on it. I figured I'd checkout the build_root setup to see if it puts a default password on it. I turned off the power and took out the mmc card to be able to write a new image onto it on another machine. Once I was done, I went back to the gumstix and now it doesn't work at all! No uboot prompt or anything. Occasionally I just get a letter "a" with a grave character above it appearing, that or a '.' character. That's all. I'm running this gumstix in a harness I build for it myself. I took this gumstix out of a waysmall so I put it back into the waysmall to see if the battery had dropped too low, but it doesn't work in there as well. What could be wrong? As I can't get a uboot prompt I'm quite worried that the stix may have died for some reason. However, all I was busy with were software issues. There's still 3.85V going into the gumstix into the correct pins. One of the last things I did however before booting it was to set the environment variables. - Kim |