I can no longer install Ubuntu Server on my pandaboard, using the same automated process that worked last week.
The installer appears to work successfully but then I get no output after reboot. If I remove "quiet splash" then I get the attached output, in what appears to be an infinite loop.
Directed by ppisati in #ubuntu-arm, the following workaround works: ro rootwait elevator=noop vram=32M mem=456M@0x80000000 mem=512M@0xA0000000 root=UUID=$YOURUUIDHERE fixrtc console=tty0 console=ttyO2,115200n8
I have checked with someone (James Page) who has an installation of 3.2.0-1403 - his boot.scr appears to be identical to mine (before I applied the workaround). So this appears to be a kernel regression to me - I can find nothing else that has changed.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: linux-image-3.2.0-1404-omap4 3.2.0-1404.6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-1404.6-omap4 3.2.1
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-1404-omap4 armv7l
ApportVersion: 1.91-0ubuntu1
Architecture: armhf
Date: Mon Jan 23 15:23:10 2012
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_US:
LC_COLLATE=C
LANG=en_GB
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: linux-ti-omap4
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
I am able to reproduce this issue here. Problem is with the latest kernel, nothing to do with netinstall (I can reproduce it on a preinstalled image). The screen output from the kernel shows a continuous segfault during kernel boot, prior to init.
Since this is stopping all work for me (image testing, test automation development, etc), I have marked it as critical.