I just compiled and tested on Malta board a couple of days ago
by using linux-mips.org linux_2_4 CVS tree. It worked fine.
Given the new defconfig I checked in, you only need the
following command line (assuming you have dhcp with bootp setup
on your host):
go . ip=any
Jun
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 05:44:07PM +0100, ZhouY.external@infineon.com wrote:
> I tried again. The result is same.
> The green LED display shows 'LINUX' not 'LINUX on malta'. All the status LED
> are green except the LED rst is off. There are 2 kernel images(el and eb),
> one of them is vmlinux-2.2.12.mips.malta.eb-01.05.srec, which is the current
> one. I double checked my console and its baud rate is 38400.
> From this symptom, what kind of conclusion can you draw?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Yidan
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: ncrook [mailto:ncrook@micron.com]
> Gesendet am: Donnerstag, 27. Februar 2003 17:25
> An: Zhou Yidan (COM AC CE M external)
> Betreff: RE: MIPS Malta board Linux installation
>
> Hmm, well, for a start, you can just boot like this:
>
> go . console=ttyS0,38400
>
> .. your boot isn't getting anywhere near far enough to care
> about IP addresses and nfs root disks; Once you get far
> enough to see a message about "attempting to mount root
> file system" then you can start worrying about ip and nfsroot
> arguments.
>
> ..take a look at the green 8-character display (U42). If it
> is scrolling the text "linux on malta" then the kernel is
> almost certainly up and running, and I would suspect your
> serial port settings are wrong in your terminal emulator.
> If not, check you're using a big-endian kernel for a malta.
>
> that's all I can think of. Happy hunting
>
> Neal.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ZhouY.external@infineon.com [mailto:ZhouY.external@infineon.com]
> Sent: 27 February 2003 16:03
> To: ncrook@micron.com
> Subject: AW: MIPS Malta board Linux installation
>
>
> Hi Neal,
> First, thanks a lot!
> Second, I tried as you mentioned, but the result is still same--screens of
> rubbish characters.
>
> Any other solutions?
>
> Best regards,
> Yidan
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: ncrook [mailto:ncrook@micron.com]
> Gesendet am: Donnerstag, 27. Februar 2003 16:36
> An: Zhou Yidan (COM AC CE M external)
> Betreff: RE: MIPS Malta board Linux installation
>
>
> >>Start = 0x80100608, range = (0x80100000,0x8024015f), format = SREC
> >>YAMON> go . nfsroot=192.168.149.1:/c/linux/mipseb ip=192.168.149.116
> >>
> >>LINUX started...
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> ³ÿ
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> ÿí
>
>
> looks like your serial port baud rate is wrong. At some stage, the
> current setting (left by YAMON) gets overwritten by UART setup in
> Linux. Try changing:
>
> go . nfsroot=192.168.149.1:/c/linux/mipseb ip=192.168.149.116
>
> to:
>
> go . nfsroot=192.168.149.1:/c/linux/mipseb ip=192.168.149.116
> console=ttyS0,38400
>
> (38400 is the baud rate.. use the value you want)
>
> Just my guess.. worth as much as you paid for it!!
>
> Neal.
>
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