Raspberry Pi No Login

[hiren panchasara]

On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 9:15 AM, Tim Kientzle <tim at kientzle.com> wrote:
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> On Jan 30, 2013, at 7:42 AM, Neal Nelson wrote:
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>> HI.
>>
>> I'm able to build a bootable FreeBSD image using the beaglebone scripts, which I understand is the accepted way at the moment.
>>
>> The problem I have is that everything seems to be going nicely, but I never get a login prompt. The last thing I see, after the ssh key generation stuff, is a line showing the date, then nothing. This is true using Current as of today (2012-01-30).
>>
>> I've had this problem for some time now as every image I build using this process has the same problem. If anyone has an idea as to what I'm doing wrong, I'd be very grateful.
>
> Look at the kernel boot messages for the SD card
> check.
>
> Is it probing at 25MHz or 50MHz?
>
> I haven't tried RPi in a little while, but last time I did
> there was an erratic bug which caused the SD card
> to sometimes get probed at 50MHz and be non-functional.
>
> I believe some people worked around this by trying
> different cards or maybe it's been fixed in the
> SD driver by now?

Not sure if its fixed in the driver now but I got around the frequency
problem by the patch available at:
http://www.peach.ne.jp/archives/rpi/patch/

Basically its setting freq to 25MHz instead of default 50MHz in
bcm2835_sdhci.c

Hiren
>
> Tim
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