Subject: Re: Booting on EBSA-285 with bios 1.06..

From: Steve Goodwin <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 11:50:07 +0100

In message <[email-masked]>, Mathias Teikari
<[email-masked]> writes
>Hi all..
>
>I've run into some problems trying to boot linux on an EBSA-285,
>maybe someone knows of this..
>
>I'm using bios-1.06 with patch ebsa285-bios-1.06.diff2 as only boot
>utility (i.e. no Angel). My kernel is 2.2.15 w. patch-2.2.15-rmk1.
>
>When trying to upload the kernel via the serial port and boot, I get
>the below output. As suggested in bios/drivers/char/flash.c I've
>tried using linux/lib/inflate.c from kernel 2.3.99-pre9 w.
>patch-2.3.99-pre9-rmk1. This, however gives the same result.
>
>Any hints and tips would be appreciated!

baud rate settings that the kernel is using different to monitor
settings maybe ??? sorry, I only lurk here so can't contribute more

HTH

>++++++++
>
>EBSA285 Linux BIOS v1.06
>
> 16384 KB SDRAM OK
>
>Initialising devices: serial port
>
>Hit 's' twice to abort autoboot... starting autoboot
>Trying serial port...
>
>Now send file with y-modem (^X to abort) ...
>.
>
>Transfer complete, press any key.
>Now booting image...
>Uncompressing Linux................. done, booting the kernel.
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From: Mathias Teikari <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 11:49:39 +0200

Hi all..

Thanx,
    Mathias

++++++++

EBSA285 Linux BIOS v1.06

 16384 KB SDRAM OK

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From: Russell King - ARM Linux Admin <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 08:07:51 +0100 (BST)

> patch-2.3.99-pre9-rmk1. This, however gives the same result.

By default, the kernel will run the serial port on the 21285
at 9600 baud.  It looks like the loader is running at some other
speed.
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