I had a similar problem. In my instance it turned out that I was
inadvertently using the physical address of my uart as the output address.
This worked during boot becasue there was a 1:1 physical-logical entry
stuffed into the MMU. But since Linux did nto know about it, as soon as
the VM system decided to use that TLB entry IO died - right in the
middle of a string.

While it is unlikely you made exactly the same mistake. One area you can
check is memory.

What is your output device ?

schardt wrote:

Hi all,

i still have some problems booting linux from flash and don't know how
to debug.

i have a xilinx4-ppc with 64MB Ram and 4MB Flash, U-Boot works fine,
kernel is booting, but my little hello world program runs as init, died
after printing "He" (intead of "Hello World"). i tried initramfs with
build in cpio-image and jffs2 rootfs

Is there a log-buffer to look at ?
Should i try another compiler version ? (btw. booting from systemace
works with the version i use).

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famous last words :

[   50.476641] VFS: Mounted root (jffs2 filesystem).
[   50.533581] Freeing unused kernel memory: 68k init
He
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regards
Georg



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