Re: [Gumstix-users] Kernel Panic after adding Tinyx, pxaregs, and configuring for LCD

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

On Oct 2, 2005, at 5:03 PM, <tho...@be...> wrote:

> Sorry for the premature post.
>
> After setting and saving the environment variables for the LCD, the  
> panic was eliminated.
>
> However, the boot seemed to hang for quite a while  (uncompressing  
> Linux?) before finally bringing up the prompt.

Let me guess -- you have an XM gumstix?  If you update your u-boot to  
the latest from sf.net, then you should find a new command "jerase"  
which can be used to erase the part of the flash where the root_fs  
goes (but not the part where u-boot goes!) in a way which the JFFS2  
filesystem will find friendly.  This will eliminate that multi-minute  
wait during the first time the root_fs is mounted under linux.  This  
was discussed about a week or so ago on the mailing list if you want  
to go dig the details of what's going on out of the archives.

> Now to see if the LCD works!

Good luck!