Thanks for your comments @Loren. It's quite odd that the board boots fine with old kernels and not with now ones, isn't it?. I tried the images available at http://www.armhf.com/index.php/boards/beaglebone-black/:
- Ubuntu Saucy 13.10<http://www.armhf.com/index.php/boards/beaglebone-black/#saucy> and - Ubuntu Precise 12.04.3 LTS<http://www.armhf.com/index.php/boards/beaglebone-black/#precise> pretty much the same result as you get: *....* *[ 2.477446] registered taskstats version 1* *[ 2.538597] davinci_mdio 4a101000.mdio: davinci mdio revision 1.6* *[ 2.545147] davinci_mdio 4a101000.mdio: no live phy, scanning all* *[ 2.552441] davinci_mdio: probe of 4a101000.mdio failed with error -5* *[ 2.559885] Detected MACID = bc:6a:29:84:8d:3a* *[ 2.565340] Unhandled fault: external abort on non-linefetch (0x1008) at 0xd0894000* *[ 2.573651] Internal error: : 1008 [#1] SMP ARM* *[ 2.578448] Modules linked in:* *[ 2.581705] CPU: 0 Not tainted (3.8.13-bone30 #1)* *[ 2.587076] PC is at cpsw_probe+0x528/0xbc8* *[ 2.591518] LR is at ioremap_page_range+0xd8/0x16c* *[ 2.596595] pc : [<c03f23f4>] lr : [<c02e6168>] psr: a0000113* *[ 2.596595] sp : cf05de38 ip : cf04d250 fp : cf42f298* *[ 2.608723] r10: 00000001 r9 : cf42f540 r8 : d0894000* *[ 2.614252] r7 : cf113800 r6 : 00000000 r5 : cf113810 r4 : cf42f000* *[ 2.621154] r3 : 00000000 r2 : 00000000 r1 : 4a100e13 r0 : d0894000* *[ 2.628061] Flags: NzCv IRQs on FIQs on Mode SVC_32 ISA ARM Segment kernel* *[ 2.635788] Control: 10c5387d Table: 80004019 DAC: 00000015* *[ 2.641865] Process swapper/0 (pid: 1, stack limit = 0xcf05c240)* *[ 2.648216] Stack: (0xcf05de38 to 0xcf05e000)* *[ 2.652831] de20: 00000000 00000000* *[ 2.661486] de40: cf447c08 cf42f540 00000000 c014c2f0 22222222 00000020 00000000 cf447c88* *[ 2.670140] de60: cf447c08 cf447c08 00000008 c014c1e0 00000000 cf447c08 cf112488 cf446d40* *[ 2.678794] de80: 00000000 c014cba0 cf0474b8 c005e608 00000000 00000003 cf112488 00000000* *[ 2.687446] dea0: c0a171ec cf113810 cf113818 cf113810 cf113844 c0a171ec c098c5b4 c09a9dc0* *[ 2.696099] dec0: 00000000 cf05c008 00000000 c037c480 00000000 cf113810 cf113844 c098c5b4* *[ 2.704751] dee0: 00000000 c037c66c 00000000 c098c5b4 c037c604 c037acbc cf047478 cf111c80* *[ 2.713405] df00: c098c5b4 cf446d40 c0981ff0 c037bc44 c07ee6aa c07ee6aa 00000000 c098c5b4* *[ 2.722060] df20: c090ebe8 c09218d4 c0901ed4 c037cbb8 00000007 c090ebe8 c09218d4 c0901ed4* *[ 2.730716] df40: c09a9dc0 c0008894 c0901ed4 0000f442 c0921900 00000008 00000007 c090ebe8* *[ 2.739369] df60: c09218d4 c09a9dc0 c09a9dc0 000000f1 c090ebf0 c08dc918 00000007 00000007* *[ 2.748020] df80: c08dc270 00000000 00000000 c05fd740 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000* *[ 2.756672] dfa0: 00000000 c05fd748 00000000 c000d478 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000* *[ 2.765323] dfc0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000* *[ 2.773974] dfe0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000013 00000000 ffeffae6 5fbfaaaa* *[ 2.782667] [<c03f23f4>] (cpsw_probe+0x528/0xbc8) from [<c037c480>] (driver_probe_device+0xa4/0x1e4)* *[ 2.792340] [<c037c480>] (driver_probe_device+0xa4/0x1e4) from [<c037c66c>] (__driver_attach+0x68/0x8c)* *[ 2.802304] [<c037c66c>] (__driver_attach+0x68/0x8c) from [<c037acbc>] (bus_for_each_dev+0x70/0x84)* *[ 2.811885] [<c037acbc>] (bus_for_each_dev+0x70/0x84) from [<c037bc44>] (bus_add_driver+0xdc/0x218)* *[ 2.821463] [<c037bc44>] (bus_add_driver+0xdc/0x218) from [<c037cbb8>] (driver_register+0x9c/0x124)* *[ 2.831044] [<c037cbb8>] (driver_register+0x9c/0x124) from [<c0008894>] (do_one_initcall+0x8c/0x150)* *[ 2.840729] [<c0008894>] (do_one_initcall+0x8c/0x150) from [<c08dc918>] (kernel_init_freeable+0x108/0x1cc)* *[ 2.850979] [<c08dc918>] (kernel_init_freeable+0x108/0x1cc) from [<c05fd748>] (kernel_init+0x8/0xe4)* *[ 2.860665] [<c05fd748>] (kernel_init+0x8/0xe4) from [<c000d478>] (ret_from_fork+0x14/0x3c)* *[ 2.869505] Code: e59f1650 ebfe1d58 ea0000d1 e58485c0 (e5982000) * *[ 2.875956] ---[ end trace 85aa0dcf7be9c2ab ]---* *[ 2.881634] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x0000000b* I'll try to set compile the kernel myself and play a bit with the modules to see if there's something that can be done. -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.