Hi I have been trying to ubuntu 9.04 on a sheevaplug using the sheevaplug installer.
I previously had success with this and thought it was a relatively easy process.
When I tried to do it again with another plug which I thought was identical it seems to work correctly flashing uboot but when it tries to boot the kernel the console turns to garbage.
I have tried resetting the environment variables. and various different versions of uboot
but i can't seem to fix the problem.
Has anyone else solved this problem, or does anyone have any tips on what i might try?
PS. i have also tried it with debian lenny...
Below is the console output when i tried using ESIA
"setenv bootargs_console 'console=ttyS0,115200'"
"Marvell>> setenv bootcmd 'run recover1'"
"Marvell>> setenv recover1 'setenv mainlineLinux yes; setenv arcNumber 2097; setenv bootcmd run recover2; saveenv; reset'"
"Marvell>> setenv recover2 'run recover3; setenv bootcmd $(real_bootcmd); saveenv; run rec33'"
"Marvell>> setenv install_options 'backup= url=Ubuntu904 kernel=uImage rootfs=rootfs.tar.gz modules=modules.tar.gz apptype= access=c2hlZXZhOnBsdWcK'"
"Marvell>> setenv real_bootcmd 'setenv bootargs $(bootargs_console) $(mtdpartitions) $(bootargs_root); mmcinit; ext2load mmc 0:1 0x800000 /uImage; bootm 0x00800000'"
"Marvell>> setenv recover3 'run recover4'"
"Marvell>> setenv rec33 'setenv bootargs $(bootargs_console) $(mtdpartitions) root=/dev/ram0 rw ramdisk=0x01100000,8M install_type=mmc $(install_options); bootm 0x00800000 0x01100000'"
"Marvell>> setenv recover4 'usb start; fatload usb 0 0x00800000 instImg; fatload usb 0 0x01100000 initrd'"
"Marvell>> setenv bootargs_root 'root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rootdelay=5'"
"Marvell>> setenv app_name 'Ubuntu904'"
"Marvell>> setenv app_summary 'Ubuntu 9.04 ARM5 SheevaPlug Distribution'"
"Marvell>> saveenv"
"Saving Environment to NAND..."
"Erasing Nand...Writing to Nand... done"
"Marvell>> boot"
"Saving Environment to NAND..."
"Erasing Nand...Writing to Nand... done"
""
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"** MARVELL BOARD: SHEEVA PLUG LE"
"U-Boot 1.1.4 (Dec 27 2009 - 22:03:21) Marvell version: 3.4.27"
"U-Boot code: 00600000 -> 0067FFF0 BSS: -> 006CFEE0"
"Soc: 88F6281 A1 (DDR2)"
"CPU running @ 1200Mhz L2 running @ 400Mhz"
"SysClock = 400Mhz , TClock = 200Mhz"
"DRAM CAS Latency = 5 tRP = 5 tRAS = 18 tRCD=6"
"DRAM CS[0] base 0x00000000 size 256MB"
"DRAM CS[1] base 0x10000000 size 256MB"
"DRAM Total size 512MB 16bit width"
"Addresses 8M - 0M are saved for the U-Boot usage."
"Mem malloc Initialization (8M - 7M): Done"
"NAND:512 MB"
"Flash: 0 kB"
"CPU : Marvell Feroceon (Rev 1)"
"Streaming disabled"
"Write allocate disabled"
"USB 0: host mode"
"PEX 0: interface detected no Link."
"Net: egiga0 [PRIME]"
"Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0"
"(Re)start USB..."
"USB: scanning bus for devices... 2 USB Device(s) found"
"Waiting for storage device(s) to settle before scanning..."
"1 Storage Device(s) found"
"reading instImg"
"..."
"2620504 bytes read"
"reading initrd"
"..."
"3330714 bytes read"
"Saving Environment to NAND..."
"Erasing Nand...Writing to Nand... done"
"## Booting image at 00800000 ..."
"Image Name: Linux-2.6.30.2"
"Created: 2009-07-23 1:53:36 UTC"
"Image Type: ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)"
"Data Size: 2620440 Bytes = 2.5 MB"
"Load Address: 00008000"
"Entry Point: 00008000"
"Verifying Checksum ... OK"
"OK"
"## Loading Ramdisk Image at 01100000 ..."
"Image Name: initrd.ext2.gz"
"Created: 2010-04-24 19:16:42 UTC"
"Image Type: ARM Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)"
"Data Size: 3330650 Bytes = 3.2 MB"
"Load Address: 00000000"
"Entry Point: 00000000"
"Verifying Checksum ... OK"
"Starting kernel ..."
"Uncompressing Linux... done, booting the kernel."
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