Kernel continuously rebooting

Altera_Forum · ‎08-24-2005

I am running linux 2.6 on a Altera Cyclone II Nios II dev board. I have created a system, kernal and file system. Every thing compiled, no problems but the kernel keep on rebooting after ---

Linux version 2.6.11-uc0 (Administrator@xaibear) (gcc version 3.4.1 (Altera Nios

II 5.0 b73))# 3 Tue Aug 23 11:45:05 SAST 2005

uClinux/Nios II

setup_arch: No persistant network settings signature at 007F0000

Built 1 zonelists

Kernel command line: root=/dev/mtdblock0 ro

PID hash table entries: 256 (order: 8, 4096 bytes)

Dentry cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)

Inode-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)

Memory available: 30592k/32768k RAM, 0k/0k ROM (1499k kernel code, 309k data)

Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)

NET: Registered protocol family 16

NIOS serial driver version 0.0

ttyS0 (irq = 4) is a builtin NIOS UART

Serial: JTAG UART driver $Revision: 1.4 $

ttyJ0 at MMIO 0x821208d0 (irq = 1) is a jtag_uart

io scheduler noop registered

io scheduler anticipatory registered

io scheduler deadline registered

io scheduler cfq registered

RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize

smc_probe: 85000 Khz Nios

SMSC LAN91C111 Driver (v2.1), (Linux Kernel 2.6)

eth0: SMC91C11xFD(rev:1) at 0x82110300 IRQ:6 MEMSIZE:8192b NOWAIT:0 ADDR: 00:07:

ed:00:00:00

smc_probe: 85000 Khz Nios

Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2

ide: Assuming 50MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx

CF: ctl=8

Altera NDK flash (AMD): Found 1 x16 devices at 0x0 in 8-bit bank

Amd/Fujitsu Extended Query Table at 0x0040

Altera NDK flash (AMD): CFI does not contain boot bank location. Assuming top.

number of CFI chips: 1

cfi_cmdset_0002: Disabling erase-suspend-program due to code brokenness.

cmdlinepart partition parsing not available

RedBoot partition parsing not available

Using Altera NDK partition definition

Creating 4 MTD partitions on "Altera NDK flash (AMD)":

0x00200000-0x00800000 : "romfs/jffs2"

0x00000000-0x00200000 : "loader/kernel"

0x00800000-0x00c00000 : "User configuration"

0x00c00000-0x01000000 : "safe configuration"

NET: Registered protocol family 2

IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes

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)

NET: Registered protocol family 1

NET: Registered protocol family 17

At this point it keeps rebooting

What is the problem and what should actually happen next???

Thank for your help

Altera_Forum · ‎08-29-2005

Hi all

I read all the other topics and threads, followed the guides. The exception address is in ddr sdram. I have tried negating the compact flash and the lan91c111 individually and all together. Nothing works.

I'd appretiate any help?

Thanks

Altera_Forum · ‎08-29-2005

Hey Rual,

I've been encountering the same issue as yourself, and I posted it in an earlier thread, as a continuation to an earlier problem. I suppose it would've made more sense to start a new one up. I'll repost here, where it belongs. The only difference between you and I is that I'm using the Altera Stratix II DSP board, which there isn't a supplied Microtronix uClinux example for. Therefore, I have to generate the romfs from command line instead of using the developer, a known issue.

repost

I'm still getting a continual reboot. It doesn't seem to matter if I use <base addy of flash> as from my core design or from the flash programmer for the command line genromfs execute. And yes, I clear flash before trying one or the other to ensure it's not a previous burn. However, one run went farther than any other and reported an error near the beginning and at the end that perhaps someone else is familiar with. Here's my boot sequence.

uClinux/Nios II

setup_arch: No persistant network settings signature at 00FF0000

Built 1 zonelists

Kernel command line: root=/dev/mtdblock0 ro

PID hash table entries: 128 (order: 7, 2048 bytes)

Dentry cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)

Inode-cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)

Memory available: 14472k/16384k RAM, 0k/0k ROM (1422k kernel code, 296k data)

Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)

NET: Registered protocol family 16

Serial: JTAG UART driver $Revision: 1.4 $

ttyJ0 at MMIO 0x82120940 (irq = 1) is a jtag_uart

io scheduler noop registered

io scheduler anticipatory registered

io scheduler deadline registered

io scheduler cfq registered

RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize

smc_probe: 50000 Khz Nios

Altera NDK flash (AMD): Found 1 x16 devices at 0x0 in 8-bit bank

Amd/Fujitsu Extended Query Table at 0x0040

Altera NDK flash (AMD): CFI does not contain boot bank location. Assuming top.

number of CFI chips: 1

cfi_cmdset_0002: Disabling erase-suspend-program due to code brokenness.

cmdlinepart partition parsing not available

RedBoot partition parsing not available

Using Altera NDK partition definition

Creating 4 MTD partitions on "Altera NDK flash (AMD)":

0x00200000-0x00800000 : "romfs/jffs2"

0x00000000-0x00200000 : "loader/kernel"

0x00800000-0x00c00000 : "User configuration"

0x00c00000-0x01000000 : "safe configuration"

microtronix[mtd]: RAM probe address=0x200000 size=0x0

Creating 1 MTD partitions on "RAM":

0x00000000-0x00000000 : "ROMfs"

mtd: partition "ROMfs" is out of reach -- disabled

microtronix[mtd]: set ROMfs to be root filesystem

NET: Registered protocol family 2

IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes

TCP established hash table entries: 1024 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)

TCP bind hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)

TCP: Hash tables configured (established 1024 bind 1024)

NET: Registered protocol family 1

NET: Registered protocol family 17

Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(31,0)

Altera_Forum · ‎08-29-2005

Keplin,

I'm not sure your problems are the same. Looks like your problem lies with the file system you are creating.

>>> microtronix[mtd]: RAM probe address=0x200000 size=0x0

>>> Creating 1 MTD partitions on "RAM":

>>> 0x00000000-0x00000000 : "ROMfs"

>>> mtd: partition "ROMfs" is out of reach -- disabled

The size is 0, and its address conficts with you flash ROMfs

Doug

Altera_Forum · ‎08-29-2005

Wait a minute, so the Kernel still thinks my romfs is located in 0x200000 on flash? I generated the filesystem under the command line and placed it at location 0x500000 instead. This is due to the fact that the DSP board has a different config and addresses factory at 0x200000, with that declared in the PTF. Could the Kernel be looking in the PTF and seeing that there's a config already located at 0x200000, therefore thinking there's a size of 0x0 (being 0x200000 to 0x200000)?

How do I then point the Kernel to the right location to find the filesystem?

Thanks for any help,

Matt

Altera_Forum · ‎08-29-2005

Matt,

Update your altera.c file located in:

/***/com.microtronix.nios2linux.kernel_1.4.0/linux-2.6.x/drivers/mtd/maps/altera.c

Should probably copy it first to something like altera.c.orig (keep the original). Then update altera.c with what you want.

Doug

Altera_Forum · ‎08-31-2005

Keplin & Matt

Thanks for your help

I found some inconsistencies in the size of the flash allocated by uClinux for my system. I also found that the address lines for the flash chip has an offset in SOPC builder. The SOPC builder component's address[0] should be assigned to D15.A1, address[1] to A0 ......

My system is now running OK

Thanks again http://forum.niosforum.com/work2/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif

Altera_Forum · ‎09-01-2005

Same here Doug, that worked great. Thanks for the help!