Dear Allan Wang, In message <401793.31718...@web52903.mail.re2.yahoo.com> you wrote: > > I am new to the list. I am still newbie to embedded linux. I have > bought an ep440xs board which is similar to sequoia board. u-boot is > working. I am trying to make it run linux. I have the following > problems and need your help. Thank you very much:
Which exact version of U-Boot are you running on this board? I guess this is a out-of-tree port, i. e. not part of the mainline U-Boot repository - so are you sure that device tree support is enabled in your version of U-Boot? > > I am using linux kernel 2.6.30.4. I encounter 2 problems: > 1. After console_init() is called inside start_kernel(), the console starts > printing garbage like: > Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled > serial8250.0: ttyS0 at MMIO 0x1ef600300 (irq = 16) is a 16550A > ������������������������������ ... What is your exact boot command? Which boot arguments do you pass to the kernel? What is ytour console baud rate in U-Boot, and what sort of "console=" boot argument do you pass to the Linux kernel? What does your device tree look like? > 2. It pakics when mounting the root file system(NFS): > (gdb) bt > #0 panic (fmt=0xc0290e94 "VFS: Unable to mount root fs on %s") So what is the "%s" argument here? Which sort of root file system are you trying to mount - NFS, ramdisk, UBIFS, ... ? Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: w...@denx.de "He only drinks when he gets depressed." "Why does he get depressed?" "Sometimes it's because he hasn't had a drink." - Terry Pratchett, _Men at Arms_ _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev