On Mon, 3 Dec 2012, Jan Lübbe wrote: > On Mon, 2012-12-03 at 03:31 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > *sigh* ... i *think* i figured out what's happening. in order to > > play with barebox on my xM, until recently, i'd done nothing more than > > create a single FAT partition on a micro SD card, put MLO and > > barebox.bin on it, put it in my xM, and let it boot. until that OMAP > > merge, it worked fine. > > > > as i read it, the new default environment for the xM *requires* a > > second (ext3) partition or the boot process simply hangs, am i reading > > that right? if that's true, how can i adjust that so i can once again > > just boot to barebox without having a kernel and root fs created yet? > > Only the kernel uses the second partition for its rootfs, barebox > should get to the prompt where you can interrupt autoboot anyway. > > So figuring out the exact commit would be useful. The bisection > should take only a few steps. Sascha build-checks every revision, so > all the bisection steps should build fine. actually, i *did* use bisection to isolate it -- here's the commit that introduces the issue: commit 5f2074bdd13ea69af5a10c3bcccb648720d6937a Author: Sascha Hauer Date: Wed Oct 31 10:16:48 2012 +0100 ARM OMAP3 beagle: switch to new environment Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer did i forget to post that? oops ... rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ========================================================================