Re: booting the samsung chromeboot xe303c12 with the debian armmp kernel
On 17 November 2014 17:13, David Edmondson <dme@dme.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 17 2014, Pedro Bulach wrote:
>> I am stuck at a similar situation, where the kernel is loaded but
>> fails to boot the box. A screenshot is attached. I have built upstream
>> kernels 3.17.2 and 3.18-rc4 over the weekend, both with the same
>> results.
>
> I built a kernel according to the instructions on the linux-exynos
> wiki[1]. When I 'bootm ...' (no initrd), the boot loader outputs a bunch
> of text, much as your screenshot. A few minutes later (I didn't time it,
> but much longer than you would normally expect to wait), the screen
> cleared, two penguins are shown and some kernel messages scroll
> past. The screen clears again, and I'm left with it blank.
>
> So, _something_ works better with the kernel from the linux-exynos
> github repository, even if it doesn't get all of the way (but it may be
> that I messed up my incantations in uboot).
That is good to know. I have a few questions:
1. are you using nv-uboot-snow or nv-uboot-snow-simplefb?
2. did you configure the exynos-linux kernel with exynos_defconfig?
>> My current plan is to build the cros kernel and install it as a uImage
>> on the boot partition to validate the setup. Once it works, I will go
>> back to the upstream kernel, and then to debian's kernel.
At least this is working. I used the nv-uboot-snow (without simplefb)
and rebuilt the cros kernel from the 3.8 branch with its
chromeos-exynos5 default configuration. I placed the uImage and the
dtb at /boot/ and the system did boot to jessie. Wifi did not work
though.
However, using the debian kernel, configured by exynos_defconfig, and
placing the uImage and dtb at the same location does not boot. The
kernel is loaded but the system reboots instantly. This will be
impossible to debug without a serial console :-(
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