Altboot Opie Hangs On Bootsplash

[kai]

I'm trying to setup a loop-image opie 3.5.4.1 on my ext2-formated 1gb SD card.  
Flashed 3.5.4.1 opie, then I used altboot to setup a loop-image, it installed with no problem.  But while the loop-image is booting, the OZ bootsplash comes up, I do an ALT+Left to see the boot messages.  Then, right after it goes "Press any key to interrupt... 5 4 3 2 1... Starting opie" it goes back to the "Press ALT+Left to see boot messages" screen and hangs.  No response even from unlocking the battery cover.

I formated SD card with FAT, reinstalled loop-image from rootfs.tar.gz, same thing.  The same loop-image works on my FAT-formated CF card.  Direct-install on SD works likes a charm.  Same results on another SD card I have.  No problems at all with GPE.

So here's a summary, opie hangs on bootsplash, happens only on a opie loop-image on SD card formated with FAT or ext2.  

Bad SD cards?  Anyone else encountered the same problem?  Please help.

Kai

[tr.hawk]

Hi Kai!

First of all big cheers to the OZ crew for getting these wonderful zaurus devices closer to their real destination!
But still some miles to go...

I just got the same trouble:
OZ opie 3.5.4.1 on akita C1000 via altboot from 128MB loop image file on a 1GB SD card, ext2 formatted, rootfs installed through altboot from

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Booting hangs exactly the way you described. Sometimes hard reset and rebooting may work, but yesterday I tried resetting three times, without success. I then booted into the internal system, and afterwards successfully rebooted into the SD loop image. There already seems to be a bug report related to this topic at

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Sometimes there is some kind of message from the boot process, but it lasts quiet too short to make out any content, before changing to the black "Press ALT+Left to see boot messages" screen.

So, does anybody know how to debug these issues? Is there a way to enable more debug messages? Anyway I would like to see more kernel output instead of a splash screen.

For now, I'll try disabling the oz-bootsplash and see what's happening, as this issue is quiet annoying.

Cheers
 Frank

[mozz]

Hi,
I've tested on my poodle with 3.5.4.X RCX and happens to me too.

I've reported http://bugs.openembedded.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1285.

Bye.

[agraef]

I also have this, running OZ 3.5.4.1 on a C-1000. There are at least two corresponding bug entries, #1197 and #1285. Has anyone looked into this and maybe found a fix or workaround?