Richard, I am sending this post over the the Embedded Debian group where there should be a topic started on using Debian for the SheevaPlug.
Prince On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 7:04 PM, Rickard Nilsson <[email protected]>wrote: > Den 2009-04-26 13:39:17 skrev David Given <[email protected]>: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Rickard Nilsson wrote: >> [...] >> >>> However, the process just stops after having uncompressed the >>> kernel: >>> >> >> What are your bootargs? Have you told it you want it to use a serial >> console (without which you'll get no output at all)? >> >> I have: >> >> console=ttyS0,115200 >> mtdparts=nand_mtd:0x400...@0x100000(uImage),0x1fb00...@0x500000(rootfs) >> rw root=b301 rootdelay=5 >> >> (b301 is the first partition on the SD card; you should be aware that >> there seems to be a problem with recent mainline kernels in that they >> don't handle the SD card properly.) >> > > I have essentially the same bootargs as you, including the console. If > I boot the kernel that Marvell ships, in exactly the same way and with > the same bootargs, everything works fine, and I can watch the kernel > loading on the console. > > I have also tried running: > > setenv mainlineLinux=yes > setenv arcNumber=2097 > > first, as Martin suggested, but that didn't change anything. > > > / Rickard > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [email protected] > >

