[Bug 3480] 5500 hangs during boot

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http://bugs.openembedded.net/show_bug.cgi?id=3480


Ashley Gittins <agittins at purple.dropbear.id.au> changed:

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--- Comment #3 from Ashley Gittins <agittins at purple.dropbear.id.au>  2008-02-22 16:37:40 ---
Try using altboot to drop to a shell (I think the easiest way to get straight
out is to try booting off SD, when that fails it should give you a shell).

If you can get that far, then edit /etc/default/rcS and add:

HWCLOCKACCESS=no

This will prevent the bootup scripts from trying to access the rtc device which
is causing lockups on collie. This worked for me (admittedly, that was a little
while ago on a previous version). Reboot, and see if you get any further.

Oh, and don't try setting the time when you get into GPE either, that will also
hang the device.

I don't know how this is meant to be fixed in OE, hopefully someone can hint.
My guess is that we copy /packages/sysvinit/sysvinit/rcS-default to
/packages/sysvinit/sysvinit/collie/rcS-default and add the HWCLOCKACCESS=no
line to that, but perhaps seeing this is actually a bug in the rtc driver, it
should be fixed in the kernel rather than worked around in user-space.


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