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Altera_Forum
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21 years ago

Kernel boot hanging after power-up

I'm having trouble with a custom board when booting Linux. After the FPGA configures, the kernel begins to boot, and hangs when trying to mount the second RAMdisk. If I RESET the processor wi...
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21 years ago

It looks like you're using a custom board... I don't know much about hardware, but could it be that some of the peripherals may need to be held in reset a bit longer before they're ready for use?

In the meantime, maybe you can try throwing in a bunch of "echo" statements into your rc file to try and slim down where the problem is occurring?