Changing Start Address of Linux - linux

We are trying to boot linux on a zedboard and monitor all memory accesses through Programmable Logic. We're first trying to boot linux with a start address above 0x40000000 with:
$ make ARCH=arm UIMAGE_LOADADDR=0x48008000 uImage
So far, we're getting:
reading uImage
3453656 bytes read in 568 ms (5.8 MiB/s)
reading devicetree.dtb
9209 bytes read in 16 ms (561.5 KiB/s)
reading uramdisk.image.gz
5310018 bytes read in 865 ms (5.9 MiB/s)
memstart 0
## Booting kernel from Legacy Image at 43000000 ...
Image Name: Linux-3.18.0-xilinx-06434-g1f570
Image Type: ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
Data Size: 3453592 Bytes = 3.3 MiB
Load Address: 48008000
Entry Point: 48008000
Verifying Checksum ... OK
## Loading init Ramdisk from Legacy Image at 42000000 ...
Image Name:
Image Type: ARM Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
Data Size: 5309954 Bytes = 5.1 MiB
Load Address: 48000000
Entry Point: 48000000
Verifying Checksum ... OK
## Flattened Device Tree blob at 42a00000
Booting using the fdt blob at 0x42a00000
Loading Kernel Image ... OK
Loading Ramdisk to 1e812000, end 1ed22602 ... OK
Loading Device Tree to 1e80c000, end 1e8113f8 ... OK
## Transferring control to Linux (at address 48008000)...
Starting kernel ...
It looks like Linux hangs after trying to enable the mmu with the command:
mcr p15, 0, r0, c1, c0, 0 # write control reg
within arch/arm/kernel/head.S.
How can I get this to work?

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Attempting to boot new uImage

I am attempting to boot uImage via uboot and I am getting some seemingly conflicting log info:
update Kernel1 tftp uImage-2.5 6.35. -digi-armv7a.LONEPEAK-Ver-4_33
Using FEC0 device
TFTP from server 10.12.1.77; our IP address is 10.12.1.205
Filename 'uImage-2.6.35-digi-armv7a.LONEPEAK-Ver-4_33'.
Load address: 0x94000000
Loading: #################################################################
#################################################################
###########################################
done
Bytes transferred = 2533360 (26a7f0 hex)
Calculated checksum = 0x49669c61
Updating partition 'Kernel1'
Erasing 128 KiB # 0x08540000: 0%
Erasing 128 KiB # 0x085e0000: 20%
Erasing 128 KiB # 0x08680000: 41%
Erasing 128 KiB # 0x08720000: 62%
Erasing 128 KiB # 0x087c0000: 83%
Erasing: complete
Writing: 0%
Writing: 51%
Writing: complete
Verifying: 0%
Verifying: 51%
Verifying: complete
Writing Parameters to NVRAM
Update successful
Above it shows a successful update but then when issue a reboot command I get:
scanning bus for devices... 1 USB Device(s) found
scanning bus for storage devices... 0 Storage Device(s) found
** Invalid boot device **
Booting partition 'Kernel0'
## Booting kernel from Legacy Image at 90007fc0 ...
Image Name: Linux-2.6.35.14-tjerbmx51_0005+
Created: 2018-10-16 21:35:37 UTC
Image Type: ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
Data Size: 2533296 Bytes = 2.4 MB
Load Address: 90008000
Entry Point: 90008000
Loading Kernel Image ... OK
OK
Starting kernel ...
So my question is:
Is there a way for me to version my kernel when I build it s/t I can set the 'Image Name' so that I know its my kernel being loaded and not some type of Legacy Image??
Perhaps the CONFIG_LOCALVERSION-option of Linux kernel .config-file will help you.
From the Kernel.org:
Keep a backup kernel handy in case something goes wrong. This is
especially true for the development releases, since each new release
contains new code which has not been debugged. Make sure you keep a
backup of the modules corresponding to that kernel, as well. If you
are installing a new kernel with the same version number as your
working kernel, make a backup of your modules directory before you do
a make modules_install.
Alternatively, before compiling, use the kernel config option
“LOCALVERSION” to append a unique suffix to the regular kernel
version. LOCALVERSION can be set in the “General Setup” menu.
So during the kernel configuration you can add some clear suffix to your kernel e.g. CONFIG_LOCALVERSION="-test_some_stuff".
Some useful links: 1 and 2.

OpenWRT doesn't boot

I have a RT5350F router device (Hardware is almost the same as Nexx WT1520). It used to run Zyxel Keenetic 4G II firmware, and now I decided to reflash OpenWRT to it.
I tried a lot of versions, and all of them don't boot any further than this:
U-Boot 1.1.3 (Apr 11 2013 - 00:10:51)
Board: Ralink APSoC DRAM: 16 MB
relocate_code Pointer at: 80fb4000
spi_wait_nsec: 42
spi device id: c2 20 16 c2 20 (2016c220)
find flash: MX25L3205D
raspi_read: from:30000 len:1000
.*** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment
============================================
Ralink UBoot Version: 3.6.0.0
--------------------------------------------
ASIC 5350_MP (Port5<->None)
DRAM_CONF_FROM: Boot-Strapping
DRAM_TYPE: SDRAM
DRAM_SIZE: 128 Mbits
DRAM_WIDTH: 16 bits
DRAM_TOTAL_WIDTH: 16 bits
TOTAL_MEMORY_SIZE: 16 MBytes
Flash component: SPI Flash
Date:Apr 11 2013 Time:00:10:51
============================================
icache: sets:256, ways:4, linesz:32 ,total:32768
dcache: sets:128, ways:4, linesz:32 ,total:16384
##### The CPU freq = 360 MHZ ####
estimate memory size =16 Mbytes
Please choose the operation:
1: Load system code to SDRAM via TFTP.
2: Load system code then write to Flash via TFTP.
3: Boot system code via Flash (default).
4: Entr boot command line interface.
7: Load Boot Loader code then write to Flash via Serial.
9: Load Boot Loader code then write to Flash via TFTP. 0
3: System Boot system code via Flash.
## Booting image at bc050000 ...
raspi_read: from:50000 len:40
. Image Name: MIPS OpenWrt Linux-3.18.45
Created: 2017-03-05 12:30:01 UTC
Image Type: MIPS Linux Kernel Image (lzma compressed)
Data Size: 1087633 Bytes = 1 MB
Load Address: 80000000
Entry Point: 80000000
raspi_read: from:50040 len:109891
................. Verifying Checksum ... OK
Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
No initrd
## Transferring control to Linux (at address 80000000) ...
## Giving linux memsize in MB, 16
Starting kernel ...
[ 0.000000] Linux version 3.18.45 (wayfarer#VirtualBox) (gcc version 4.8.3 (O penWrt/Linaro GCC 4.8-2014.04 r49389) ) #3 Sun Mar 5 14:29:13 EET 2017
[ 0.000000] SoC Type: Ralink RT5350 id:1 rev:3
[ 0.000000] bootconsole [early0] enabled
[ 0.000000] CPU0 revision is: 0001964c (MIPS 24KEc)
[ 0.000000] MIPS: machine is Nexx WT1520
[ 0.000000] Determined physical RAM map:
[ 0.000000] memory: 02000000 # 00000000 (usable)
[ 0.000000] Initrd not found or empty - disabling initrd
[ 0.000000] Zone ranges:
[ 0.000000] Normal [mem 0x00000000-0x01ffffff]
[ 0.000000] Movable zone start for each node
[ 0.000000] Early memory node ranges
[ 0.000000] node 0: [mem 0x00000000-0x01ffffff]
[ 0.000000] Initmem setup node 0 [mem 0x00000000-0x01ffffff]
I reflashed U-boot as well, which didn't really help.
Some other OpenWRT firmwares boot, but crash right away, saying "Not enough RAM".

unexpected crash of embedded-linux on Zynq-Device (Zybo)

We have created, following the instruction on wiki-xilinx-linux web page, a system Zybo + embedded linux kernel (I want to remark that we didn't use PetaLinux but we have built all the file with the Xilinx tools).
When we turn on the system everything works fine and this is the output at the boot time:
U-Boot 2016.07-03720-g95e11f6-dirty (Oct 17 2016 - 02:56:48 -0700)
Model: Zynq ZYBO Development Board
Board: Xilinx Zynq
I2C: ready
DRAM: ECC disabled 512 MiB
MMC: sdhci#e0100000: 0
SF: Detected S25FL128S_64K with page size 256 Bytes, erase size 64 KiB, total 16 MiB
*** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment
In: serial#e0001000
Out: serial#e0001000
Err: serial#e0001000
Model: Zynq ZYBO Development Board
Board: Xilinx Zynq
Net: ZYNQ GEM: e000b000, phyaddr 0, interface rgmii-id
I2C EEPROM MAC address read failed
eth0: ethernet#e000b000
Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0
Device: sdhci#e0100000
Manufacturer ID: 3
OEM: 8368
Name: NCard
Tran Speed: 50000000
Rd Block Len: 512
SD version 3.0
High Capacity: Yes
Capacity: 3.7 GiB
Bus Width: 4-bit
Erase Group Size: 512 Bytes
reading uEnv.txt
** Unable to read file uEnv.txt **
Copying Linux from SD to RAM...
reading uImage
3843104 bytes read in 367 ms (10 MiB/s)
reading devicetree.dtb
10331 bytes read in 17 ms (592.8 KiB/s)
reading uramdisk.image.gz
5310018 bytes read in 504 ms (10 MiB/s)
## Booting kernel from Legacy Image at 02080000 ...
Image Name: Linux-4.6.0-xilinx-22285-g0e4e40
Image Type: ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
Data Size: 3843040 Bytes = 3.7 MiB
Load Address: 00008000
Entry Point: 00008000
Verifying Checksum ... OK
## Loading init Ramdisk from Legacy Image at 04000000 ...
Image Name:
Image Type: ARM Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
Data Size: 5309954 Bytes = 5.1 MiB
Load Address: 00000000
Entry Point: 00000000
Verifying Checksum ... OK
## Flattened Device Tree blob at 02000000
Booting using the fdt blob at 0x2000000
Loading Kernel Image ... OK
Loading Ramdisk to 1e601000, end 1eb11602 ... OK
Loading Device Tree to 1e5fb000, end 1e60085a ... OK
Starting kernel ...
Uncompressing Linux... done, booting the kernel.
Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0
Linux version 4.6.0-xilinx-22285-g0e4e407-dirty (leonardo#ubuntu) (gcc version 4.9.2 (Sourcery CodeBench Lite 2015.05-17) ) #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Oct 17 03:54:44 PDT 2016
CPU: ARMv7 Processor [413fc090] revision 0 (ARMv7), cr=18c5387d
CPU: PIPT / VIPT nonaliasing data cache, VIPT aliasing instruction cache
Machine model: xlnx,zynq-7000
bootconsole [earlycon0] enabled
cma: Reserved 16 MiB at 0x1f000000
Memory policy: Data cache writealloc
percpu: Embedded 12 pages/cpu #debcc000 s19776 r8192 d21184 u49152
Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 130048
Kernel command line: console=ttyPS0,115200 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rw earlyprintk rootfstype=ext4 rootwait devtmpfs.mount=1
PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Memory: 489332K/524288K available (5304K kernel code, 230K rwdata, 1844K rodata, 1024K init, 222K bss, 18572K reserved, 16384K cma-reserved, 0K highmem)
Virtual kernel memory layout:
vector : 0xffff0000 - 0xffff1000 ( 4 kB)
fixmap : 0xffc00000 - 0xfff00000 (3072 kB)
vmalloc : 0xe0800000 - 0xff800000 ( 496 MB)
lowmem : 0xc0000000 - 0xe0000000 ( 512 MB)
pkmap : 0xbfe00000 - 0xc0000000 ( 2 MB)
modules : 0xbf000000 - 0xbfe00000 ( 14 MB)
.text : 0xc0008000 - 0xc07fb004 (8141 kB)
.init : 0xc0800000 - 0xc0900000 (1024 kB)
.data : 0xc0900000 - 0xc0939b60 ( 231 kB)
.bss : 0xc0939b60 - 0xc09714e8 ( 223 kB)
Preemptible hierarchical RCU implementation.
Build-time adjustment of leaf fanout to 32.
RCU restricting CPUs from NR_CPUS=4 to nr_cpu_ids=2.
RCU: Adjusting geometry for rcu_fanout_leaf=32, nr_cpu_ids=2
NR_IRQS:16 nr_irqs:16 16
efuse mapped to e0800000
slcr mapped to e0802000
L2C: platform modifies aux control register: 0x72360000 -> 0x72760000
L2C: DT/platform modifies aux control register: 0x72360000 -> 0x72760000
L2C-310 erratum 769419 enabled
L2C-310 enabling early BRESP for Cortex-A9
L2C-310 full line of zeros enabled for Cortex-A9
L2C-310 ID prefetch enabled, offset 1 lines
L2C-310 dynamic clock gating enabled, standby mode enabled
L2C-310 cache controller enabled, 8 ways, 512 kB
L2C-310: CACHE_ID 0x410000c8, AUX_CTRL 0x76760001
zynq_clock_init: clkc starts at e0802100
Zynq clock init
sched_clock: 64 bits at 325MHz, resolution 3ns, wraps every 4398046511103ns
clocksource: arm_global_timer: mask: 0xffffffffffffffff max_cycles: 0x4af477f6aa, max_idle_ns: 440795207830 ns
Switching to timer-based delay loop, resolution 3ns
clocksource: ttc_clocksource: mask: 0xffff max_cycles: 0xffff, max_idle_ns: 551318127 ns
timer #0 at e080a000, irq=17
Console: colour dummy device 80x30
Calibrating delay loop (skipped), value calculated using timer frequency.. 650.00 BogoMIPS (lpj=3250000)
pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301
Mount-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Mountpoint-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
CPU: Testing write buffer coherency: ok
CPU0: thread -1, cpu 0, socket 0, mpidr 80000000
Setting up static identity map for 0x100000 - 0x100058
CPU1: thread -1, cpu 1, socket 0, mpidr 80000001
Brought up 2 CPUs
SMP: Total of 2 processors activated (1300.00 BogoMIPS).
CPU: All CPU(s) started in SVC mode.
devtmpfs: initialized
VFP support v0.3: implementor 41 architecture 3 part 30 variant 9 rev 4
clocksource: jiffies: mask: 0xffffffff max_cycles: 0xffffffff, max_idle_ns: 19112604462750000 ns
pinctrl core: initialized pinctrl subsystem
NET: Registered protocol family 16
DMA: preallocated 256 KiB pool for atomic coherent allocations
cpuidle: using governor menu
hw-breakpoint: found 5 (+1 reserved) breakpoint and 1 watchpoint registers.
hw-breakpoint: maximum watchpoint size is 4 bytes.
zynq-ocm f800c000.ocmc: ZYNQ OCM pool: 256 KiB # 0xe0880000
zynq-pinctrl 700.pinctrl: zynq pinctrl initialized
vgaarb: loaded
SCSI subsystem initialized
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
usbcore: registered new device driver usb
media: Linux media interface: v0.10
Linux video capture interface: v2.00
pps_core: LinuxPPS API ver. 1 registered
pps_core: Software ver. 5.3.6 - Copyright 2005-2007 Rodolfo Giometti <giometti#linux.it>
PTP clock support registered
EDAC MC: Ver: 3.0.0
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Initialized.
clocksource: Switched to clocksource arm_global_timer
NET: Registered protocol family 2
TCP established hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 4096 bind 4096)
UDP hash table entries: 256 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
UDP-Lite hash table entries: 256 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
NET: Registered protocol family 1
RPC: Registered named UNIX socket transport module.
RPC: Registered udp transport module.
RPC: Registered tcp transport module.
RPC: Registered tcp NFSv4.1 backchannel transport module.
Trying to unpack rootfs image as initramfs...
rootfs image is not initramfs (no cpio magic); looks like an initrd
Freeing initrd memory: 5188K (de601000 - deb12000)
hw perfevents: enabled with armv7_cortex_a9 PMU driver, 7 counters available
futex hash table entries: 512 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
workingset: timestamp_bits=28 max_order=17 bucket_order=0
jffs2: version 2.2. (NAND) (SUMMARY) © 2001-2006 Red Hat, Inc.
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered (default)
dma-pl330 f8003000.dmac: Loaded driver for PL330 DMAC-241330
dma-pl330 f8003000.dmac: DBUFF-128x8bytes Num_Chans-8 Num_Peri-4 Num_Events-16
e0001000.serial: ttyPS0 at MMIO 0xe0001000 (irq = 143, base_baud = 6250000) is a xuartps
�console [ttyPS0] enabled
console [ttyPS0] enabled
bootconsole [earlycon0] disabled
bootconsole [earlycon0] disabled
xdevcfg f8007000.devcfg: ioremap 0xf8007000 to e086c000
[drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
brd: module loaded
loop: module loaded
CAN device driver interface
libphy: MACB_mii_bus: probed
macb e000b000.ethernet eth0: Cadence GEM rev 0x00020118 at 0xe000b000 irq 145 (00:0a:35:00:01:22)
RTL8211E Gigabit Ethernet e000b000.etherne:00: attached PHY driver [RTL8211E Gigabit Ethernet] (mii_bus:phy_addr=e000b000.etherne:00, irq=-1)
e1000e: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - 3.2.6-k
e1000e: Copyright(c) 1999 - 2015 Intel Corporation.
ehci_hcd: USB 2.0 'Enhanced' Host Controller (EHCI) Driver
ehci-pci: EHCI PCI platform driver
usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
mousedev: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
i2c /dev entries driver
EDAC MC: ECC not enabled
Xilinx Zynq CpuIdle Driver started
sdhci: Secure Digital Host Controller Interface driver
sdhci: Copyright(c) Pierre Ossman
sdhci-pltfm: SDHCI platform and OF driver helper
mmc0: SDHCI controller on e0100000.sdhci [e0100000.sdhci] using DMA
ledtrig-cpu: registered to indicate activity on CPUs
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
usbhid: USB HID core driver
NET: Registered protocol family 10
sit: IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
NET: Registered protocol family 17
can: controller area network core (rev 20120528 abi 9)
NET: Registered protocol family 29
can: raw protocol (rev 20120528)
can: broadcast manager protocol (rev 20120528 t)
can: netlink gateway (rev 20130117) max_hops=1
Registering SWP/SWPB emulation handler
hctosys: unable to open rtc device (rtc0)
ALSA device list:
mmc0: new high speed SDHC card at address b368
No soundcards found.
mmcblk0: mmc0:b368 NCard 3.72 GiB
mmcblk0: p1 p2
RAMDISK: gzip image found at block 0
EXT4-fs warning (device ram0): ext4_update_dynamic_rev:746: updating to rev 1 because of new feature flag, running e2fsck is recommended
EXT4-fs (ram0): mounted filesystem without journal. Opts: (null)
VFS: Mounted root (ext4 filesystem) on device 1:0.
Starting rcS...
++ Mounting filesystem
mount: mounting /dev/mmcblk0p1 on /mnt failed: No such file or directory
mount: mounting /dev/mmcblk0 on /mnt failed: No such file or directory
++ Setting up mdev
++ Starting telnet daemon
++ Starting http daemon
++ Starting ftp daemon
++ Starting ssh daemon
random: sshd urandom read with 1 bits of entropy available
rcS Complete
zynq>
zynq>
zynq>
The problem is that, after some instructions, the system crash with this output:
zynq> EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p2): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
VFS: Mounted root (ext4 filesystem) on device 179:2.
Trying to move old root to /initrd ... /initrd does not exist. Ignored.
Unmounting old root
Trying to free ramdisk memory ... failed
devtmpfs: error mounting -2
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000020
pgd = c0004000
[00000020] *pgd=00000000
Internal error: Oops - BUG: 17 [#1] PREEMPT SMP ARM
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 PID: 10 Comm: migration/0 Not tainted 4.6.0-xilinx-22285-g0e4e407-dirty #1
Hardware name: Xilinx Zynq Platform
task: de060040 ti: de06a000 task.ti: de06a000
PC is at set_section_perms+0x8c/0x110
LR is at set_section_perms+0x18/0x110
pc : [<c0113404>] lr : [<c0113390>] psr: 80000093
sp : de06bec0 ip : dc4f3018 fp : 00000600
r10: 00000000 r9 : 00000000 r8 : 00000001
r7 : 00000003 r6 : c0902468 r5 : 00000000 r4 : c0908508
r3 : 00000000 r2 : c0000000 r1 : 00000003 r0 : 00000009
Flags: Nzcv IRQs off FIQs on Mode SVC_32 ISA ARM Segment none
Control: 18c5387d Table: 1c4f804a DAC: 00000051
Process migration/0 (pid: 10, stack limit = 0xde06a210)
Stack: (0xde06bec0 to 0xde06c000)
bec0: c0908508 00000003 00000001 de0db780 de0db780 de0db998 00000003 c0908508
bee0: c09065c0 00000000 00000000 c01134f4 de04df70 00000001 a0000013 de04df84
bf00: 00000003 00000000 00000000 c011355c c011354c c017c420 de04df30 debccf64
bf20: de06a000 debccf68 00000000 c017c4f8 c017c478 de06a000 de02db40 c090cd94
bf40: 00000001 c0135454 de060040 de02d9c0 00000000 de02db40 c0135218 00000000
bf60: 00000000 c0132a40 4dff1176 00000001 00000000 de02db40 00000000 00030003
bf80: de06bf80 de06bf80 00000000 00000000 de06bf90 de06bf90 de06bfac de02d9c0
bfa0: c0132968 00000000 00000000 c0106ef8 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
bfc0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
bfe0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000013 00000000 dfefe0f2 77e519c8
[<c0113404>] (set_section_perms) from [<c01134f4>] (update_sections_early+0x6c/0xc4)
[<c01134f4>] (update_sections_early) from [<c011355c>] (__fix_kernmem_perms+0x10/0x1c)
[<c011355c>] (__fix_kernmem_perms) from [<c017c420>] (multi_cpu_stop+0xb0/0x108)
[<c017c420>] (multi_cpu_stop) from [<c017c4f8>] (cpu_stopper_thread+0x80/0xb0)
[<c017c4f8>] (cpu_stopper_thread) from [<c0135454>] (smpboot_thread_fn+0x23c/0x254)
[<c0135454>] (smpboot_thread_fn) from [<c0132a40>] (kthread+0xd8/0xec)
[<c0132a40>] (kthread) from [<c0106ef8>] (ret_from_fork+0x14/0x3c)
Code: e1520003 2a00001b e5943014 e1a0baa2 (e599a020)
---[ end trace 07a0838423ee7708 ]---
note: migration/0[10] exited with preempt_count 2
It is clear that there is an error with the "mounted filesystem":
zynq> EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p2): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
VFS: Mounted root (ext4 filesystem) on device 179:2.
Trying to move old root to /initrd ... /initrd does not exist. Ignored.
Unmounting old root
Trying to free ramdisk memory ... failed
devtmpfs: error mounting -2
Why does this happen? Why before I can do everything with the system and, suddenly, I have a crash? Yes, the system crashes when I am doing nothing on it and not when I am working with it.
Are there some advice to solve this? to not to have anymore these crashes?
From the Linux Kernel Command line I can see "root=/dev/mmcblk0p2" and also the target is started with initial ramdisk image "uramdisk.image.gz". So the init process or scripts inside ramdisk image should be responsible to mount the real file system from SD i.e. from /dev/mmcblk0p2 and remove the used memory of ramdisk. To narrow down the problem, you need to analyze the steps taken in ramdisk image to mount the real filesystem and make sure you have the proper RFS flashed inside SD in /dev/mmcblk0p2. I can also seen some missing directories to mount the /dev/mmcblk0p1 and /dev/mmcblk0.
++ Mounting filesystem
mount: mounting /dev/mmcblk0p1 on /mnt failed: No such file or directory
mount: mounting /dev/mmcblk0 on /mnt failed: No such file or directory
In simple words, check the init scripts inside the ramdisk image and make sure the RFS is mounted properly.

Init process not found when booting with ramdisk as rootfs

I'm trying to setup a ramdisk for a setup I have with AT91SAM9261 and 2.6.30 kernel.
I know you would say why don't I use initramfs? I will use also that one, as of now I would like to check if I can boot with a ramdisk as rootfs.
I have already a root fs running fine on this system in jffs2 format.
I used below tutorial:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-initrd/
So I created the ramdisk directly on the embedded target, with 4MB size.
I used "dd" and "mkefs" and the ramdisk image works fine if I mount it as loop when rootfs is my jffs2.
I can browse mount_point and do stuff inside.
The content was created according to the section "Manually building initial RAM disk" in the above link.
In /dev I placed null and console, in /bin I copied busybox and created the links.
I set the execute attribute to init script as well, which works fine when I run it here (as loop device with jffs2 as rootfs)
In my kernel config I enabled ramdisk support as follows:
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD=y
CONFIG_RD_GZIP=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_COUNT=16
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE=4096
Using tftp I download the ramdisk image to 0x21100000.
At 0x20008000 I have the kernel uncompressed and at 0x22000000 the zImage copied.
However, I'm not able to boot successfully the system as it hangs when checking init process.
As I mentioned, I checked several times that my init can be executed,
I also used in the bootargs init=/bin/busybox or other scripts/binaries to check if any can be used as init.
Command line I use now:
bootargs=64M console=ttyS0,115200 root=/dev/ram0 rw
initrd=0x21100000,4194304 init=/init
For some I set ownership to "nobody" just to check if it makes any difference.
As it can be seen in the log output the ramdisk is mounted, but init fails.
It gives a warning to check the ext2 image, which I did before copying it and I have no error reported.
The tftp server is on Windows7. I though I might have some incompatibility if I copy the ramdisk image from linux to Windows then do tftp from Windows server.
So I copied the image again from Windows to linux, mounted it and checked if the FS reports any error and scripts can be executed - everything looks normal.
So I do have all files in place, attributes set, ramdisk is reported as being mounted ok as rootfs, but init cannot be found.
Uncompressing Linux......................................................................................................... done, booting the kernel.
Linux version 2.6.30-olimex (mishu#KubuntuVM) (gcc version 4.3.3 (Sourcery G++ Lite 2009q1-203) ) #1 Mon Dec 29 13:53:54 CET 2014
CPU: ARM926EJ-S [41069265] revision 5 (ARMv5TEJ), cr=00053177
CPU: VIVT data cache, VIVT instruction cache
Machine: Olimex SAM9-L9261
Ignoring unrecognised tag 0x54410008
Memory policy: ECC disabled, Data cache writeback
Clocks: CPU 198 MHz, master 99 MHz, main 18.432 MHz
Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 16256
Kernel command line: 64M console=ttyS0,115200 root=/dev/ram0 rw initrd=0x21100000,4194304 init=/init
NR_IRQS:192
AT91: 96 gpio irqs in 3 banks
PID hash table entries: 256 (order: 8, 1024 bytes)
Console: colour dummy device 80x30
console [ttyS0] enabled
Dentry cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
Memory: 64MB = 64MB total
Memory: 57384KB available (2924K code, 246K data, 132K init, 0K highmem)
Calibrating delay loop... 99.12 BogoMIPS (lpj=495616)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
CPU: Testing write buffer coherency: ok
net_namespace: 716 bytes
NET: Registered protocol family 16
AT91: Power Management
AT91: Starting after user reset
bio: create slab <bio-0> at 0
SCSI subsystem initialized
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
usbcore: registered new device driver usb
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 2048 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 2048 bind 2048)
TCP reno registered
NET: Registered protocol family 1
Trying to unpack rootfs image as initramfs...
rootfs image is not initramfs (junk in compressed archive); looks like an initrd
Freeing initrd memory: 4096K
NetWinder Floating Point Emulator V0.97 (double precision)
JFFS2 version 2.2. (NAND) (SUMMARY) © 2001-2006 Red Hat, Inc.
msgmni has been set to 120
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered (default)
atmel_lcdfb atmel_lcdfb.0: backlight control is not available
atmel_lcdfb atmel_lcdfb.0: 225KiB frame buffer at 23140000 (mapped at ffc00000)
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 40x30
atmel_lcdfb atmel_lcdfb.0: fb0: Atmel LCDC at 0x00600000 (mapped at c4866000), irq 21
atmel_usart.0: ttyS0 at MMIO 0xfefff200 (irq = 1) is a ATMEL_SERIAL
atmel_usart.1: ttyS1 at MMIO 0xfffb0000 (irq = 6) is a ATMEL_SERIAL
brd: module loaded
loop: module loaded
ssc ssc.1: Atmel SSC device at 0xc4878000 (irq 15)
Driver 'sd' needs updating - please use bus_type methods
dm9000 Ethernet Driver, V1.31
eth0 (dm9000): not using net_device_ops yet
eth0: dm9000e at c486a000,c486e044 IRQ 107 MAC: 3a:1f:34:08:54:64 (chip)
NAND device: Manufacturer ID: 0xec, Chip ID: 0xdc (Samsung NAND 512MiB 3,3V 8-bit)
Scanning device for bad blocks
Bad eraseblock 1478 at 0x00000b8c0000
Creating 2 MTD partitions on "atmel_nand":
0x000000000000-0x000000040000 : "Partition 1"
0x000000040000-0x000020000000 : "Partition 2"
atmel_spi atmel_spi.0: Atmel SPI Controller at 0xfffc8000 (irq 12)
ohci_hcd: USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver
at91_ohci at91_ohci: AT91 OHCI
at91_ohci at91_ohci: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
at91_ohci at91_ohci: irq 20, io mem 0x00500000
usb usb1: New USB device found, idVendor=1d6b, idProduct=0001
usb usb1: New USB device strings: Mfr=3, Product=2, SerialNumber=1
usb usb1: Product: AT91 OHCI
usb usb1: Manufacturer: Linux 2.6.30-olimex ohci_hcd
usb usb1: SerialNumber: at91
usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
udc: at91_udc version 3 May 2006
g_serial gadget: Gadget Serial v2.4
g_serial gadget: g_serial ready
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
input: gpio-keys as /class/input/input0
ads7846 spi0.2: touchscreen, irq 29
input: ADS784x Touchscreen as /class/input/input1
rtc-at91sam9 at91_rtt.0: rtc core: registered at91_rtt as rtc0
IRQ 1/rtc0: IRQF_DISABLED is not guaranteed on shared IRQs
rtc-at91sam9 at91_rtt.0: rtc0: SET TIME!
i2c /dev entries driver
i2c-gpio: probe of i2c-gpio failed with error -16
Registered led device: led1
Registered led device: led2
Registered led device: led3
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.20.
at73c213 spi0.3: at73c213: supported bitrate is 48500 (64 divider)
usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using at91_ohci and address 2
usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=0457, idProduct=0151
usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
usb 1-1: Product: USB Mass Storage Device
usb 1-1: SerialNumber: 8d54bd8186b42c
usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
ALSA device list:
#0: SAM9-L9261 external DAC on irq 15
TCP cubic registered
NET: Registered protocol family 17
RPC: Registered udp transport module.
RPC: Registered tcp transport module.
rtc-at91sam9 at91_rtt.0: hctosys: unable to read the hardware clock
RAMDISK: ext2 filesystem found at block 0
RAMDISK: Loading 4096KiB [1 disk] into ram disk... done.
EXT2-fs warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is recommended
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) on device 1:0.
Freeing init memory: 132K
Failed to execute /init. Attempting defaults...
Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel.
[<c002f414>] (unwind_backtrace+0x0/0xdc) from [<c025bd34>] (panic+0x40/0x110)
[<c025bd34>] (panic+0x40/0x110) from [<c0029500>] (init_post+0xd0/0xf8)
[<c0029500>] (init_post+0xd0/0xf8) from [<c00085a0>] (kernel_init+0xbc/0xe4)
[<c00085a0>] (kernel_init+0xbc/0xe4) from [<c0041998>] (do_exit+0x0/0x5ac)
[<c0041998>] (do_exit+0x0/0x5ac) from [<00000001>] (0x1)
I plan to rebuild busybox and try again, but as my current ramdisk image works when I mount it as loop I don't have too much confidence it will change something.
I'm out of ideas. I've been trying the whole day to get this working.
Help is much appreciated.
Thanks.
Missing libraries were the root cause for the non-executable init placed on the ramdisk.
Using chroot turned out to be extremely useful. With this issue I learned how to use chroot and simulate a jail.
Another trick was to use user_debug=31 in the command line so that the kernel will output a message saying that the file is not found.
It looks like the "file not found" does not really point to a missing file, but to a failure to read the file system due to busybox not executing properly (missing libraries).
In parallel I have compiled dynamically the busybox 1.20.02 for my arm architecture and the ramdisk worked properly (without libs).
This user_debug=31 turned out to be again useful when I compiled and ran busybox, as it was also failing after mounting the ramdisk, but it thrown out an "undefined exception" which led me to a wrong "arch" value used for compiling busybox. After changing it everything was fine.

Linux 2.6.28 crashes when mem=1024M is passed as boot parameter from u-boot

I am working on building an linux for powerpc 8641d board. My U-boot has been modified to recognize 1 GB of memory(RAM) and it does. But Linux 2.6.28 crashes when mem=1024M is passed as boot parameter from u-boot. I have specified the memory size as 0x40000000 (1GB) in DTS file. Can any one help me to findout the reason?
But the same Linux image works when I specify bootargs as 'mem=256M'. But OS idetifies the total memory of 256MB only but I want it to identify complete 1GB memory.
Here is the dump of linux boot: ** It hangs at this point:
CPU: 8641D, Version: 3.0, (0x80900130)
Core: E600 Core 0, Version: 2.2, (0x80040202)
Clock Configuration:
CPU:1000 MHz, MPX:400 MHz
DDR:200 MHz (400 MT/s data rate), LBC:25 MHz
L1: D-cache 32 KB enabled
I-cache 32 KB enabled
L2: 512 KB enabled
Board: Wind River SBC8641D
I2C: ready
DRAM: DDR: 1 GiB
FLASH: 16 MiB
PCI-EXPRESS 1: Configured as Host
IGAPS: PCIE link is Up
Scanning PCI bus 01
01 00 10cf 2034 0380 ff
PCI-EXPRESS 1 on bus 00 - 01
PCI-EXPRESS 2: Disabled
In: serial
Out: serial
Err: serial
IGAPS: Interrupts enabled...!!!!
Net: eTSEC1, eTSEC2, eTSEC3, eTSEC4
Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0
=> bootm 1000000 - 2000000
WARNING: adjusting available memory to 30000000
## Booting kernel from Legacy Image at 01000000 ...
Image Name: Linux-2.6.28
Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
Data Size: 2417424 Bytes = 2.3 MiB
Load Address: 00000000
Entry Point: 00000000
Verifying Checksum ... OK
## Flattened Device Tree blob at 02000000
Booting using the fdt blob at 0x2000000
Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
Loading Device Tree to 007fb000, end 007ffb2d ... OK
WARNING: your dts/dtb is old. You must update before the next kernel release
Using MPC86xx HPCN machine description
Total memory = 1024MB; using 2048kB for hash table (at cfe00000)
Linux version 2.6.28 (TCS#localhost) (gcc version 4.5.4 (Buildroot 2012.11.1) ) #42 SMP Tue Aug 20 22:32:49 IST 2013
CPU maps initialized for 1 thread per core
console [udbg0] enabled
setup_arch: bootmem
mpc86xx_hpcn_setup_arch()
Found FSL PCI host bridge at 0x00000000f8008000. Firmware bus number: 0->1
Zone PFN ranges:
DMA 0x00000000 -> 0x00030000
Normal 0x00030000 -> 0x00030000
HighMem 0x00030000 -> 0x00040000
Movable zone start PFN for each node
early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges
0: 0x00000000 -> 0x00040000
Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 260096
Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,115200 mem=1024M ip=172.19.180.10:172.19.180.30:172.19.180.1:255.255.255.0:sbc8641d:eth0:off rw root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=172.19.180.30:/opt/nfsRootfs
PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 16384 bytes)
clocksource: timebase mult[2800000] shift[22] registered
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Memory: 1031376k/1048576k available (4632k kernel code, 16396k reserved, 144k data, 175k bss, 208k init)
Any reason why it hangs here?

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