Dear James, in message <OJEPIMKHOKJAJIDJLJBNMEIMCAAA.jbates at paradise.co.uk> you wrote: > > I am trying to get linux running on my standard MPC8260ADS board but I have > hit a dead end.
Reading the FAQ's and mailing list archives is recommended. > I am getting a "Machine check in kernel mode." error about the time that > ramdisks are setup. Try updating U-Boot to a recent version, or at least change the #define for CFG_BCSR into 0xF4500000 (instead of the silly 04500000) in "include/configs/MPC8260ADS.h" (also change CFG_LSDRAM_BASE into 0xFD000000 while you are at it). > I am using the linuxppc_2_4_devel eldk which I checked out this week and > u-boot 0.4.0. I have added the boot output at the end of this message for > those that are interested. I have also attempted to make some sense of the > backtrace from the System.map It would have been nice if you hadd added the results of these attempts, too. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtime Systems, Embedded Linux Phone: (+49)-8142-4596-87 Fax: (+49)-8142-4596-88 Email: wd at denx.de A metaphor is like a simile. ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
