Re: [ECOS] redboot booting problem

[Sivakamesh Thota <thota at cosmic dot utah dot edu>]

On 26 Jun 2003, Nick Garnett wrote:

> Sivakamesh Thota <thota@cosmic.utah.edu> writes:
> 
> > hi,
> > I am doing a platform porting for xycom 654 board. I built the floppy 
> > image. By the way xycom board is like a pc board with pci bus and etc. 
> > While I am trying to boot the redboot with the floppy, there appears some 
> > dots(.) while the floppy LED is glowing. then after some time it just 
> > stops. Nothing is appearing like redboot prompt. I assume the booting 
> > fails in the middle. It's not getting the stage of redboot prompt. By the 
> > way I am copying the redboot.bin image in the install tree by the followin 
> > g command
> > 
> > dd conv=sync if=redboot.bin of=/dev/fd0
> > 
> > I am developing my platform port on a I386-pc with mandrake9.0 linux. Did 
> > I go wrong anywhere in the whole procedure? Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> If your board implements the basic PC devices: UARTs, PIC, PIT
> etc. then a standard RedBoot floppy should boot on it. If any of these
> is missing, or in some way non-standard, then it might get hung up.
> 
  It is a standard board with the above device implementation like UART 
  etc. By the way what are these devices(PIC and PIT)???
> The dots imply that it is booting correctly via the BIOS. Does it
> clear the screen? Does it print anything other than dots?

  It does not clear the screen. The dots there and no further action is 
  being taken on the boot procedure. The boot procedure comes to halt and  
  the floppy LED is off. It does not print anything other than dots. 
> 
> One possibility is that it is getting hung up looking for the ethernet
> device. Try building a RedBoot configuration that does not have
> ethernet support: disable CYGPKG_REDBOOT_NETWORKING.
> 
  I suppose it may be the problem. But even after disabling this 
  CYGPKG_REDBOOT_NETWORKING package, it happens to be the same problem. 
Any debugging techniques to know exactly how far my redboot is goin the 
booting procedure????. 

Thanks a lot for your response...
kamesh 


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