u-boot hangs on "Starting kernel..."

Hello,

I'm using a Micro2440-evaluation board and hanging on an boot failure in
u-Boot bootloader. It says "Starting kernel..." and then it stops. I would
expect the next step is "Uncompressing ...".

All my created uImages do not work. When I load the corresponding zImage
into Supervivi, everything works fine. But I need u-boot because of SD card
boot support.

I tried different toolchains (buildroot, FriendlyARM, Codesourcery) but
nothing has changed. The u-boot version is the one from the download area
on this page.

So can somebody help me, getting my mini2440 to work? I think it is the
same error Dirk describes at the end of thread
http://www.friendlyarm.net/forum/topic/2284 .

Marius

What u-boot version you're using? Which kernel? Maybe enabling in kernel
config DEBUG_LL could help to see what happens. Which board version (mean
flash size).

marek

Hello marek,

the u-boot version is the one from the download area
(http://www.friendlyarm.net/dl.php?file=u-boot_20100701.zip). I tried
different kernel versions but mainly the one from the git-repository:
git://repo.or.cz/linux-2.6/mini2440.git

I will compile with DEBUG_LL enabled and report the results. At the moment
I think the uImage could be broken, because Supervivi can boot the zImage
without any problem. And also U-Boot starts decompressing, when I use "go
0x30008000" on the zImage in memory. But after decompression it also stops
working.

Marius

Hello,

I built the kernel from GIT with DEBUG_LL enabled and the result is the
same. Kernel won't boot up. I have attached my uImage and zImage. Maybe
someone could test them. The zImage boots fine in Supervivi unless panic
because of missing root-fs, but that's normal.

I have the 256 meg version and maybe someone could send me some images
(u-boot and uImage) to test.

Marius

Binary files are most of the time useless for others to test. What should
we test with this file? What we need is the exact source tree, your
configuration to build this kernel, the toolchain that builds your kernel.