[yocto] Beagleboard booting kernel in qemu, halts

[Paul Barker]

On 13 March 2014 20:32, Paul Barker <paul at paulbarker.me.uk> wrote:
> On 13 March 2014 18:59, Mateusz Kaczanowski
> <kaczanowski.mateusz at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello everyone,
>> I'm trying to run beagleboard image in qemu. So I've built the kernel and
>> rootfs via yocto.
>>
>> But! Yocto generates zImage so I did:
>> MACHINE=beagleboard bitbake virtual/kernel
>> mkimage -A arm -O linux -T kernel -C none -a 0x80008000 -e 0x80008000 -n
>> "Linux kernel" -d ./zImage uImage
>>
>> and then I'm  running the sdcard with
>> qemu-system-arm -M beaglexm -drive if=sd,cache=writeback,file=/dev/sdb
>> -clock unix -serial stdio

I should have read this line before I replied, maybe my advice is wrong...

>>
>> Booting halts and nothing happends, no login prompt.
>> I would appreciate ANY help, I'm really lame in that subject:/
>>
>> That is my output:
>>
>
>> Kernel command line: console=ttyO2,115200n8 mpurate=auto buddy=none
>> camera=none vram=12M omapfb.mode=dvi:640x480MR-16 at 60 omapdss.def_disp=dvi
>> root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rw rootfstype=ext3 rootwait
>
> Ignoring how gmail has wrapped it, this is the kernel command line.
> It's putting the console on ttyO2 which is a serial port on the
> Beagleboard xM. You need to somehow change it so the console is on
> tty1 if you want it to appear on the screen in qemu.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> --
> Paul Barker
>
> Email: paul at paulbarker.me.uk
> http://www.paulbarker.me.uk



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