BeagleBoard xM freezes while attempting to boot 10.10

Thanks for filing this bug report. I am currently researching this issue and hope to have some possible solution soon.

One thing I noticed immediately is that you are missing omapdss.def_disp=tv from your command line. Also, if you could capture the entire boot log from the serial port and add it to this report that would help.

boot.cmd changed to include argument omapdss.def_disp=tv, and that took my all the way through the boot process to the root prompt, and allowed me to add myself as a user.
However, once I reset the beagle to test it would let me login it freezes again. Full serial port output:

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Texas Instruments X-Loader 1.4.4ss (Aug 19 2010 - 02:49:27)
Beagle xM Rev A
Reading boot sector
Loading u-boot.bin from mmc

U-Boot 2010.03-dirty (Aug 20 2010 - 20:50:46)

OMAP3630/3730-GP ES1.0, CPU-OPP2, L3-165MHz,
OMAP3 Beagle board + LPDDR/NAND
I2C: ready
DRAM: 512 MB
NAND: 256 MiB
In: serial
Out: serial
Err: serial

Probing for expansion boards, if none are connected you'll see a harmless I2C error.

No EEPROM on expansion board
Beagle xM Rev A
Die ID #528e00001bf00000015739ea0702900b
Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0
mmc1 is available
The user button is currently NOT pressed.
reading boot.scr

352 bytes read
Running bootscript from mmc ...
## Executing script at 80200000
reading uImage

3687812 bytes read
reading uInitrd

9506046 bytes read
## Booting kernel from Legacy Image at 80000000 ...
   Image Name: Ubuntu Kernel
   Image Type: ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
   Data Size: 3687748 Bytes = 3.5 MB
   Load Address: 80008000
   Entry Point: 80008000
   Verifying Checksum ... OK
## Loading init Ramdisk from Legacy Image at 81600000 ...
   Image Name: Ubuntu Initrd
   Image Type: ARM Linux RAMDisk Image (uncompressed)
   Data Size: 9505982 Bytes = 9.1 MB
   Load Address: 00000000
   Entry Point: 00000000
   Verifying Checksum ... OK
   Loading Kernel Image ... OK
OK

Starting kernel ...

Uncompressing Linux... done, booting the kernel.

Gave up waiting for root device. Common problems:
 - Boot args (cat /proc/cmdline)
   - Check rootdelay= (did the system wait long enough?)
   - Check root= (did the system wait for the right device?)
 - Missing modules (cat /proc/modules; ls /dev)
ALERT! /dev/disk/by-uuid/9448783c-6fbc-4795-a512-6c469fdecd1d does not exist. Dropping to a !

BusyBox v1.15.3 (Ubuntu 1:1.15.3-1ubuntu5) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.

(initramfs)

Start over with a fresh image and modify the boot.scr then. It should go through a complete rootfs expansion and reboot. You will need to re-edit the boot.scr again at this point, before letting it boot through.

Above was attempted and froze at:
 [ OK ]bling additional executable binary formats binfmt-support
 Reset to reboot and froze at same point.

Since the minimal ubuntu boots, I used its boot.src (I edited to refer to correct memory locations):

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if test "${beaglerev}" = "xMA"; then
echo "Kernel is not ready for 1Ghz limiting to 800Mhz"
setenv mpurate 800
fi
setenv dvimode 1280x720MR-16@60
setenv vram 12MB
setenv bootcmd 'mmc init; fatload mmc 0:1 0x80000000 uImage; fatload mmc 0:1 0x81600000 uInitrd; bootm 0x80000000 0x81600000'
setenv bootargs 'console=ttyS2,115200n8 console=tty0 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rootwait ro vram=${vram} omapfb.mode=tv:pal omapdss.def_disp=tv fixrtc buddy=unknown'
boot
--------------------------------------------------

I guess the 800Mhz limit is part of the problem, because now I can boot up to:

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Beagle xM Rev A
Reading boot sector
Loading u-boot.bin from mmc

U-Boot 2010.09-rc1 (Sep 23 2010 - 11:20:00)

OMAP3630/3730-GP ES1.0, CPU-OPP2, L3-165MHz, Max CPU Clock 1 Ghz
OMAP3 Beagle board + LPDDR/NAND
I2C: ready
DRAM: 512 MiB
NAND: 256 MiB
In: serial
Out: serial
Err: serial
Beagle xM Rev A
Die ID #528e00001bf00000015739ea0702900b
Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0
mmc1 is available
Unknown command 'userbutton' - try 'help'
reading boot.scr

530 bytes read
Running bootscript from mmc ...
## Executing script at 80200000
Kernel is not ready for 1Ghz limiting to 800Mhz
mmc1 is available
reading uImage

3687812 bytes read
reading uInitrd

6769443 bytes read
## Booting kernel from Legacy Image at 80000000 ...
   Image Name: Ubuntu Kernel
   Image Type: ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
   Data Size: 3687748 Bytes = 3.5 MiB
   Load Address: 80008000
   Entry Point: 80008000
   Verifying Checksum ... OK
## Loading init Ramdisk from Legacy Image at 81600000 ...
   Image Name: Ubuntu Initrd
   Image Type: ARM Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
   Data Size: 6769379 Bytes = 6.5 MiB
   Load Address: 00000000
   Entry Point: 00000000
   Verifying Checksum ... OK
   Loading Kernel Image ... OK
OK

Starting kernel ...

Uncompressing Linux... done, booting the kernel.
[ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset
[ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpu
[ 0.000000] Linux version 2.6.35-22-omap (buildd@gourd) (gcc version 4.4.5 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4)
[ 0.000000] CPU: ARMv7 Processor [413fc082] revision 2 (ARMv7), cr=10c53c7f
[ 0.000000] CPU: VIPT nonaliasing data cache, VIPT nonaliasing instruction cache
[ 0.000000] Machine: OMAP3 Beagle Board
[ 0.000000] Memory policy: ECC disabled, Data cache writeback
[ 0.000000] OMAP3630 ES1.0 (l2cache iva sgx neon isp 192mhz_clk )
[ 0.000000] SRAM: Mapped pa 0x40200000 to va 0xfe400000 size: 0x100000
[ 0.000000] Reserving 6291456 bytes SDRAM for VRAM
[ 0.000000] Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 130048
[ 0.000000] Kernel command line: console=ttyS2,115200n8 console=tty0 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 ron
[ 0.000000] PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
[ 0.000000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
[ 0.000000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
[ 0.000000] allocated 26...

i doubt it freezes, this is exactly the point where it fires up the graphical oem-config tool, though i dont see it either resizing the image (without which you will run out of space on the SD) nor doing the reboot it is supposed to do after resize and basic configuration. can you make sure this is a totally virgin image that was never booted before ?

Yes I followed the instructions linked to in the original post, and adjusted the boot.scr for serial bootablity to:

if test "${beaglerev}" = "xMA"; then
echo "Kernel is not ready for 1Ghz limiting to 800Mhz"
setenv mpurate 800
fi
setenv dvimode 1280x720MR-16@60
setenv vram 12MB
setenv bootcmd 'mmc init; fatload mmc 0:1 0x80000000 uImage; fatload mmc 0:1 0x81600000 uInitrd; bootm 0x80000000 0x81600000'
setenv bootargs 'console=ttyS2,115200n8 console=tty0 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rootwait ro vram=${vram} omapfb.mode=tv:pal omapdss.def_disp=tv fixrtc buddy=unknown'
boot

I don't know what to call "not going any further in the boot process", if you don't want to call it freezing :-)
I've tried both with and without the svideo cable connected, does not finish booting either way.

well, after the binfmt modules message you see in your first boots it starts X and the installer setup, there is nothing more to see on a console at that point...

that still doesnt explain why it doesnt do the first boot configuration though, you should see it resizing and reformatting the filesystems to be properly adjusted for the SD card you use, then creating swap and several other configuration bits and then it should automatically reboot.

Hi Oliver,
I did not know the first boot script would be important, since it made it all the way through. What posted was the 2nd time around when it did not make it all the way through (aka froze, although from what you say, maybe it didn't freeze, just my display was not showing anything further...)
Below is the complete output from virgin image install on sd card until the point of nothing happening (with the altered boot.scr as in my last post above):

Texas Instruments X-Loader 1.4.4ss (Sep 30 2010 - 14:44:32)
Beagle xM Rev A
Reading boot sector
Loading u-boot.bin from mmc

U-Boot 2010.09-rc1 (Sep 23 2010 - 11:20:00)

OMAP3630/3730-GP ES1.0, CPU-OPP2, L3-165MHz, Max CPU Clock 1 Ghz
OMAP3 Beagle board + LPDDR/NAND
I2C: ready
DRAM: 512 MiB
NAND: 256 MiB
In: serial
Out: serial
Err: serial
Beagle xM Rev A
Die ID #528e00001bf00000015739ea0702900b
Hit any key to stop autoboot: 3  2  1  0
mmc1 is available
Unknown command 'userbutton' - try 'help'
reading boot.scr

530 bytes read
Running bootscript from mmc ...
## Executing script at 80200000
Kernel is not ready for 1Ghz limiting to 800Mhz
mmc1 is available
reading uImage

3687812 bytes read
reading uInitrd

6769443 bytes read
## Booting kernel from Legacy Image at 80000000 ...
   Image Name: Ubuntu Kernel
   Image Type: ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
   Data Size: 3687748 Bytes = 3.5 MiB
   Load Address: 80008000
   Entry Point: 80008000
   Verifying Checksum ... OK
## Loading init Ramdisk from Legacy Image at 81600000 ...
   Image Name: Ubuntu Initrd
   Image Type: ARM Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
   Data Size: 6769379 Bytes = 6.5 MiB
   Load Address: 00000000
   Entry Point: 00000000
   Verifying Checksum ... OK
   Loading Kernel Image ... OK
OK

Starting kernel ...

Uncompressing Linux... done, booting the kernel.
[ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset
[ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpu
[ 0.000000] Linux version 2.6.35-22-omap (buildd@gourd) (gcc version 4.4.5 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.4.4-14ubuntu4) ) #33-Ubuntu Mon Sep 20 03:17:30 UTC 2010 (Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.33-omap 2.6.35.4)
[ 0.000000] CPU: ARMv7 Processor [413fc082] revision 2 (ARMv7), cr=10c53c7f
[ 0.000000] CPU: VIPT nonaliasing data cache, VIPT nonaliasing instruction cache
[ 0.000000] Machine: OMAP3 Beagle Board
[ 0.000000] Memory policy: ECC disabled, Data cache writeback
[ 0.000000] OMAP3630 ES1.0 (l2cache iva sgx neon isp 192mhz_clk )
[ 0.000000] SRAM: Mapped pa 0x40200000 to va 0xfe400000 size: 0x100000
[ 0.000000] Reserving 6291456 bytes SDRAM for VRAM
[ 0.000000] Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 130048
[ 0.000000] Kernel command line: console=ttyS2,115200n8 console=tty0 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rootwait ro vram=${vram} omapfb.mode=tv:pal omapdss.def_disp=tv fixrtc buddy=unknown
[ 0.000000] PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
[ 0.000000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
[ 0.000000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
[ 0.000000] allocated 2621440 bytes of page_cgroup
[ 0.000000] please try 'cgroup_disable=memory...

And here is another attempt at loading a virgin image to sd card. This time I used the same alter boot.scr, but after reboot, pressed keyboard to pause boot cycle, switched off the power, re-installed altered boot.scr (as suggested by Tobin earlier), put sd back in beagle, plugged it in, and pressed reboot button:

Texas Instruments X-Loader 1.4.4ss (Sep 30 2010 - 14:44:32)
Beagle xM Rev A
Reading boot sector
Loading u-boot.bin from mmc

U-Boot 2010.09-rc1 (Sep 23 2010 - 11:20:00)

OMAP3630/3730-GP ES1.0, CPU-OPP2, L3-165MHz, Max CPU Clock 1 Ghz
OMAP3 Beagle board + LPDDR/NAND
I2C: ready
DRAM: 512 MiB
NAND: 256 MiB
In: serial
Out: serial
Err: serial
Beagle xM Rev A
Die ID #528e00001bf00000015739ea0702900b
Hit any key to stop autoboot: 3  2  1  0
mmc1 is available
Unknown command 'userbutton' - try 'help'
reading boot.scr

530 bytes read
Running bootscript from mmc ...
## Executing script at 80200000
Kernel is not ready for 1Ghz limiting to 800Mhz
mmc1 is available
reading uImage

3687812 bytes read
reading uInitrd

6769443 bytes read
## Booting kernel from Legacy Image at 80000000 ...
   Image Name: Ubuntu Kernel
   Image Type: ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
   Data Size: 3687748 Bytes = 3.5 MiB
   Load Address: 80008000
   Entry Point: 80008000
   Verifying Checksum ... OK
## Loading init Ramdisk from Legacy Image at 81600000 ...
   Image Name: Ubuntu Initrd
   Image Type: ARM Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
   Data Size: 6769379 Bytes = 6.5 MiB
   Load Address: 00000000
   Entry Point: 00000000
   Verifying Checksum ... OK
   Loading Kernel Image ... OK
OK

Starting kernel ...

Uncompressing Linux... done, booting the kernel.
[ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset
[ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpu
[ 0.000000] Linux version 2.6.35-22-omap (buildd@gourd) (gcc version 4.4.5 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.4.4-14ubuntu4) ) #33-Ubuntu Mon Sep 20 03:17:30 UTC 2010 (Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.33-omap 2.6.35.4)
[ 0.000000] CPU: ARMv7 Processor [413fc082] revision 2 (ARMv7), cr=10c53c7f
[ 0.000000] CPU: VIPT nonaliasing data cache, VIPT nonaliasing instruction cache
[ 0.000000] Machine: OMAP3 Beagle Board
[ 0.000000] Memory policy: ECC disabled, Data cache writeback
[ 0.000000] OMAP3630 ES1.0 (l2cache iva sgx neon isp 192mhz_clk )
[ 0.000000] SRAM: Mapped pa 0x40200000 to va 0xfe400000 size: 0x100000
[ 0.000000] Reserving 6291456 bytes SDRAM for VRAM
[ 0.000000] Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 130048
[ 0.000000] Kernel command line: console=ttyS2,115200n8 console=tty0 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rootwait ro vram=${vram} omapfb.mode=tv:pal omapdss.def_disp=tv fixrtc buddy=unknown
[ 0.000000] PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
[ 0.000000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
[ 0.000000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
[ 0.000000] allocated 2621440 bytes of page_cgroup
[ 0.000000] please try 'cgroup_disable=memory' option if you don't want memory cgroups
[ 0.000000] Memory: 512MB = 512MB total
[ 0.000000] Memory: 496164k/496164k available, 28124k res...

The first error I can easily notice is the lack of a proper vram value. See the command line the kernel got:
[ 0.000000] Kernel command line: console=ttyS2,115200n8 console=tty0 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rootwait ro vram=${vram} omapfb.mode=tv:pal

Changed boot.scr to:

if test "${beaglerev}" = "xMA"; then
echo "Kernel is not ready for 1Ghz limiting to 800Mhz"
setenv mpurate 800
fi
setenv dvimode 1280x720MR-16@60
setenv vram 12MB
setenv bootcmd 'mmc init; fatload mmc 0:1 0x80000000 uImage; fatload mmc 0:1 0x81600000 uInitrd; bootm 0x80000000 0x81600000'
setenv bootargs 'console=ttyS2,115200n8 console=tty0 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rootwait ro vram=12MB omapfb.mode=tv:pal omapdss.def_disp=tv fixrtc buddy=unknown'
boot

For some reason minicom is no longer dumping my screen output to its log, so I am missing the first part of the first boot cycle. Pausing after reboot and re-installing boot.scr as described above, I get output on the serial port:

[ 0.000000] Verbose stalled-CPUs detection is disabled.
[ 0.000000] NR_IRQS:402
[ 0.000000] Clocking rate (Crystal/Core/MPU): 26.0/332/600 MHz
[ 0.000000] (null): no physical address for uart#3, so skipping early_init...
[ 0.000000] omap_hwmod: l3_hwmod: cannot be enabled (3)
[ 0.000000] omap_hwmod: l4_core_hwmod: cannot be enabled (3)
[ 0.000000] omap_hwmod: l4_per_hwmod: cannot be enabled (3)
[ 0.000000] omap_hwmod: l4_wkup_hwmod: cannot be enabled (3)
[ 0.000000] Reprogramming SDRC clock to 332000000 Hz
[ 0.000000] GPMC revision 5.0
[ 0.000000] IRQ: Found an INTC at 0xfa200000 (revision 4.0) with 96 interrupts
[ 0.000000] Total of 96 interrupts on 1 active controller
[ 0.000000] OMAP GPIO hardware version 2.5
[ 0.000000] OMAP clockevent source: GPTIMER12 at 32768 Hz
[ 0.000000] Console: colour dummy device 80x30
[ 0.000000] console [tty0] enabled
[ 0.000000] Calibrating delay loop... 506.27 BogoMIPS (lpj=1978368)
[ 0.000000] pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301
[ 0.000000] Security Framework initialized
[ 0.000000] AppArmor: AppArmor initialized
[ 0.000000] Yama: becoming mindful.
[ 0.000000] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
[ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys ns
[ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuacct
[ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys memory
[ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys devices
[ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys freezer
[ 0.000000] CPU: Testing write buffer coherency: ok
[ 0.000000] devtmpfs: initialized
[ 0.000000] regulator: core version 0.5
[ 0.000000] NET: Registered protocol family 16
[ 0.000000] OMAP3 Beagle Rev: xM
[ 0.000000] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 0.000000] WARNING: at /build/buildd/linux-2.6.35/arch/arm/mach-omap2/serial.c:727 omap_serial_init_port+0x88/0x1f8()
[ 0.000000] (null): can't init uart3, no clocks available
[ 0.000000] Modules linked in:
[ 0.000000] [<c004c508>] (unwind_backtrace+0x0/0x100) from [<c05142e8>] (dump_stack+0x18/0x1c)
[ 0.000000] [<c05142e8>] (dump_stack+0x18/0x1c) from [<c0081bb8>] (warn_slowpath_common+0x5c/0x6c)
[ 0.000000] [<c0081bb8>] (warn_slowpath_common+0x5c/0x6c) from [<c0081c6c>] (warn_slowpath_fmt+0x38/0x40)
[ 0.000000] [<c0081c6c>] (warn_slowpath_fmt+0x38/0x40) from [<c0010814>] (omap_serial_init_port+0x88/0x1f8)
[ 0.000000] [<c0010814>] (omap_serial_init_port+0x88/0x1f8) from [<c00109b4>] (omap_serial_init+0x30/0x3c)
[ 0.000000]...

From your boot log:
[ 8.990203] omapfb omapfb: illegal display bpp
[ 8.994750] omapfb omapfb: failed to setup fb_info
[ 8.999603] omapfb omapfb: failed to setup omapfb
[ 9.004394] omapfb: probe of omapfb failed with error -22

When you get an error like this at the omapfb driver the framebuffer is not set correctly, then you'll probably be unable to see anything at the screen.

Your u-boot cmd line seems correct, but weird is that your kernel is not showing the same cmd line:
[ 0.000000] Kernel command line: console=ttyS2,115200n8 console=tty0 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rootwait ro vram=12MB omapfb.mode=tv:pal omapdss.def_disn

hey i have just run into this bug is there any update/fix yet?

On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 11:35 AM, mellis <email address hidden> wrote:
> hey i have just run into this bug is there any update/fix yet?

What is your boot line at your boot.scr file? Can you also paste your boot log?

i no longer have the files as i am trying a work around just not and deleted all of them

On 30 November 2010 00:35, mellis <email address hidden> wrote:
> hey i have just run into this bug is there any update/fix yet?
>

Hi Mellis,
I never got that version to work, I am not sure it is possible. Best
thing is to use the hacked for beagle version of ubuntu found here:

http://www.elinux.org/BeagleBoardUbuntu#Maverick_10.10_2

Searching the Beagleboard mailing list on googlegroups is very helpful
if you have problems.
Good luck!

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