On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 02:42:10PM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > In 2009 I won a SheevaPlug as part of Hamakor Prize. At the time, I made > sure it was actually working (it wasn't at first. The problem turned out > to be that the MiniUSB cable that was bundled with the device was too > short to make contact with the MiniUSB connector inside the device), and > that I can connect to it, and that was it. > > A little while ago I picked it up again, and found out it wasn't > booting. I managed to bootstrap uboot on it (which i compiled from the > kirkwood git repository), and boot it into the bundled jffs2 Ubuntu 9.04 > image that came with it, using a kernel I compiled from git (2.6.38-rc8, > and later 2.6.38). So far, so good. > > Now I wanted to replace the image on it with Debian. I managed to > debootstrap debian onto a disk on key, but when I try to boot it, it > hangs during boot. I moved the image to a UBIFS image on the internal > nand, but the problem persist. I can boot into single user mode, and > everything works, but if I try to let the system boot completely, it > just hangs.
Just to clear the impression from those two pargraphs: the SheevaPlug originally came with a version of Ubuntu. IIRC this turned out to be a mistake, as Ubuntu does not support those specific ARM CPUs (they have higher requirements). They are well-supported in Debian. With Lenny you needed a newer kernel. With Squeeze (the current Stable version) the standard "-kirkwood" kernel flavour should work fine. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il | | best tzaf...@debian.org | | friend _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
