Ubuntu 12.04 boot problem

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Hello All;

I am having what appears to be a recurring problem based on past posts, where my BBB Rev C(?) boots from uSD card to this point and then hangs:

[ 4.517959] Freeing init memory: 288K

[ 5.664909] init: ureadahead main process (85) terminated with status 5

[ 12.226013] libphy: PHY 4a101000.mdio:01 not found

[ 12.231143] net eth0: phy 4a101000.mdio:01 not found on slave 1

However I don’t think that “net eth0: phy 4a101000.mdio:01 not found on slave 1” is the real problem, because I get the same message

With a successful boot L (Debian eMMC and Ubuntu)

I believe that I am running Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.8.13-bone20 armv7l), but I can’t be sure because of course I can’t run “uname –a”

I can however, press a key and interrupt the boot process, and get the uboot prompt.

Is there any way I can get a log of what happens when it hangs at the [ 12.231143] point ?

Obviously dmesg won’t work L

Thanks;

Bill

“No one could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.”

“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing” Edmond Burke (1729 - 1797)

http://www.packtpub.com/building-a-home-security-system-with-beaglebone/book

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So …

I did some more testing and got a uSD card to boot.

There seems to be about a ten second pause after the last message and then it boots normally.

I typed dmesg on a working image and found this:

[ 3.578862] init: ureadahead main process (85) terminated with status 5

[ 4.355140] udevd[142]: starting version 175

[ 6.738642] net eth0: initializing cpsw version 1.12 (0)

[ 6.741130] net eth0: phy found : id is : 0x7c0f1

[ 6.741156] libphy: PHY 4a101000.mdio:01 not found

[ 6.746262] net eth0: phy 4a101000.mdio:01 not found on slave 1

[ 6.765369] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready

[ 7.815507] EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p2): re-mounted. Opts: errors=remount-ro

[ 9.818316] libphy: 4a101000.mdio:00 - Link is Up - 100/Full

[ 9.818390] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready

[ 11.340772] init: smbd main process (382) killed by HUP signal

[ 11.340983] init: smbd main process ended, respawning

[ 13.845779] init: failsafe main process (371) killed by TERM signal ß Not sure what is going on here ?

I Googled the message, but couldn’t find any hits in English L Plenty in French and German.

Can anybody help here ??