[U-Boot] freebsd 8 installer on MPC8349E-mITX

[Rafal Jaworowski]

On 2010-06-24, at 00:20, Zied Fakhfakh wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 10:40 PM, Zied Fakhfakh <fzied at dottn.com> wrote:
> 
>> Type '?' for a list of commands, 'help' for more detailed help.
>> loader>
> 
> 
> We are progressing, after fixing the dhcp parameters:
> host mpc8349e-mitx {
>        hardware ethernet       08:00:3e:03:01:10;
>        fixed-address           192.168.0.195;
>        option root-path        "/var/ftp/pub/freebsd8";
>        filename                "/boot/loader";
> }
> we are able to load kernel, but crashes when looking for mfsroot.
> ...........................
> Speed: 100, full duplex
> Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf
> Speed: 100, full duplex
> Speed: 100, full duplex
> Speed: 100, full duplex
> Speed: 100, full duplex
> Speed: 100, full duplex
> Speed: 100, full duplex
> Speed: 100, full duplex
> Speed: 100, full duplex
> Speed: 100, full duplex
> /boot/kernel/kernel text=0x6cf6d4 data=0x40af4+0x3e43c
> syms=[0x4+0x592e0+0x4+0x7b3d4]
> Speed: 100, full duplex
> Speed: 100, full duplex
> 
> Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt.
> Booting [/boot/kernel/kernel]...
> Kernel entry at 0x100100 ...
> Machine check in kernel mode.
> Caused by (from msr): regs 007d1eb0 Unknown values in msr
> NIP: 0032781C XER: 00000000 LR: 0058AAD8 REGS: 007d1eb0 TRAP: 0200 DAR:
> 00000000
> MSR: 00003030 EE: 0 PR: 0 FP: 1 ME: 1 IR/DR: 11
> 
> GPR00: FFFFDF7B 007D1FA0 0FF4FF50 007B25EC 0084EF30 0084EF30 00000010
> 00000000
> GPR08: 007D0000 FFFFDF84 00000010 0083BC9C 24024028 4D981482 00000000
> 00000000
> GPR16: 0FFB41C4 0FFBA33C 00000000 00000000 00000010 00000000 00000000
> 00000000
> GPR24: 00034680 0084EF30 00100100 0003670C 007B25EC 00000000 FFFFDF9C
> FFFFDF9C
> Call backtrace:
> 00000000 0058AAD8 0010018C
> machine check
> Resetting the board.
> 
> Actually there's mfsroot.gz, and loader.conf is:
> mfsroot_load="YES"
> mfsroot_type="mfs_root"
> mfsroot_name="/boot/mfsroot"
> vfs.root.mountfrom="ufs:/dev/md0"
> 
> - do I must tell him to load the gzipped mfsroot ?
> - not to load it ?
> - or gunzip it for him ??


[Since this became rather off-topic on the u-boot ML, I'm redirecting it to the ppc at freebsd.org]

First of all: what is this kernel you're trying to load and run? Note that FreeBSD/powerpc as currently available from SVN does not support MPC83xx and unless you've done some work towards this support the existing code will not run.

Rafal