I had setup my Dockstar to run PlugApps and was quite pleased with it, but as is sometimes my downfall I wanted to "make it better". In particular I changed some of the parameters like usb_boot so it could find the correct drive/partition to boot from when multiple drives were attached. After making these changes my Dockstar started to fail boot up. As I had not yet gotten around to setting up the serial console I went down that path and today have a usable serial console hookup.

So if I simply watch the thing boot (without interrupting it) I see where is is stuck in a loop not able to start the Linux. My next steps were to read as many postings as I could find to try and bring it back to life. This got me to tftp in a new kernel (ce_kernel_redstone_v63.img) and ramdisk (ce_ramdisk_v2.0b.img.gz). The only issues I noted were when I wrote the kernel to NAND (nand write 0x800000 0x100000 0x1e30f0) I got an error that said "Attempt to write non page aligned data". I changed the command to "nand write 0x800000 0x100000 0x200000" and the write reported success. The instructions I was using said to next set the bootargs to "setenv bootargs $(console) root=/dev/mtdblock2 initrd=0x1000000,0xb39a59" and to run "bootm 0x800000". The following is as far as it gets, so I'm hoping someone here may know what I need to do to get past this issue.

Marvell>> bootm 0x800000
## Booting kernel from Legacy Image at 00800000 ...
Image Name: Linux-2.6.22.18
Image Type: ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
Data Size: 1978544 Bytes = 1.9 MiB
Load Address: 00008000
Entry Point: 00008000
Verifying Checksum ... OK
Loading Kernel Image ... OK
OK

Starting kernel ...

Uncompressing Linux.............................................................
............................................................... done, booting the kernel.