Chris,
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 01:08:44PM -0400, Chris Wilkinson wrote: [...] > Does anyone know if 7220/4020 versions are available anywhere? I don't believe it, but the SS4000E version seems to work, at least to a large extend. > It hangs on boot but boots from the console using fis load, exec. > There is one disk is inserted which is disk1/4 of what was the RAID5 > set. > > Not sure what to try next to get it to boot on its own. Perhaps to modify the boot script ? Could you report here what's in it for now ? You should play a bit in redboot to find the command to report its content. > EM-438/EM-7220 ver.AG0 2006-05-23 > == Executing boot script in 1.000 seconds - enter ^C to abort > RedBoot> fis load ramdisk.gz > RedBoot> fis load zImage > RedBoot> exec > Using base address 0x01008000 and length 0x00200000 > Uncompressing Linux... done, booting the kernel. > <<hangs here>> How are you sure that it hangs ? It can also be that it doesn't report anything to the serial console (?) If the « console=ttyS0,115200 » part is not in the exec cmdline, you will see nothing on the serial console... (But you should see the login prompt at the end of the boot process, tought...) > If I start from the console it boots. So it seems the fis images are > OK. Yes... > RedBoot> exec -c "console=ttyS0,115200 rw root=/dev/ram mem=256M@0xa0000000" > -r 0x01800000 -w 5 Your machine seems to boot normally with this exec cmdline. So the idea is to put this line in the boot script. Hih, -- JFS. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
