Added the uboot boot arguments for your reference. I did a make oldconfig on the new kernels starting with the .config of the original 2.6.28.8 kernel.
Thank you, -- Pedro Pedro Sanchez wrote: > Hello, > > I'm working on a AT91SAM9260-based SoC trying to get a more recent > kernel to load my root file system (ubuntu 9.04). The kernel that came > with the board is 2.6.28.8 and I'm trying to get 2.6.30 or later to > work. The latest one I tried is the just released 2.6.31-6.25 kernel for > Karmic. > > The problem I have is that the kernels I compile can't read the two > types of rootfs that I'm trying, ubifs and plain nfs. In the nfs case > the kernel complains that it can't connect to the server but I am sure > the server is available since I can mount the rootfs from any onther > computer in the LAN. > > The following are the results when testing the karmic kernel. > > Case 1 (UBIFS) > -------------- bootargs= console=ttyS0,115200 ubi.mtd=4 root=ubi0:rootfs rootfstype=ubifs (tried using root=/dev/mtdblock1 to no avail) > ... > UBIFS error (pid 1): ubifs_get_sb: cannot open "ubi0:rootfs", error -19 > VFS: Cannot open root device "ubi0:rootfs" or unknown-block(0,0) > Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available > partitions: > 1f00 256 mtdblock0 (driver?) > 1f01 1048320 mtdblock1 (driver?) > Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on > unknown-block(0,0) > > > Case 1 (NFS) > ------------ bootargs console=ttyS0,115200 ubi.mtd=4 root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=192.168.215.59:/data/rootfs/armel ip=192.168.1.106::192.168.215.3:255.255.255.0:benbria:eth0:off > ... > IP-Config: Complete: > device=eth0, addr=192.168.215.106, mask=255.255.255.0, > gw=192.168.215.3, > host=benbria, domain=, nis-domain=(none), > bootserver=255.255.255.255, rootserver=192.168.215.59, rootpath= > Looking up port of RPC 100003/2 on 192.168.215.59 > eth0: link up (100/Full) > rpcbind: server 192.168.215.59 not responding, timed out > Root-NFS: Unable to get nfsd port number from server, using default > Looking up port of RPC 100005/1 on 192.168.215.59 > rpcbind: server 192.168.215.59 not responding, timed out > Root-NFS: Unable to get mountd port number from server, using default > Root-NFS: Server returned error -5 while mounting /data/rootfs/armel > VFS: Unable to mount root fs via NFS, trying floppy. > VFS: Cannot open root device "nfs" or unknown-block(2,0) > > > The original 2.6.28.8 kernel on the same hardware happily mounts either > rootfs type without any problems. Any ideas on what I can do to fix this? > > Thank you, > -- Ubuntu-mobile mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-mobile
