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This sometimes happens when using one of the minimal images from the Yocto Project, such as core-image-minimal
or core-image-full-cmdline
. These images do not include the kernel-modules
package, which contains the kernel module with codepage 437. There are two ways this can be resolved:
If you're compiling a custom kernel, it is recommended to set the kernel configuration option:
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_437=y
Please refer to the Yocto Project Manual for how to use menuconfig
to generate and save defconfig
files for the kernel.
If you're not building a custom kernel, you can add this line to your local.conf
in order to include all the kernel modules in the image:
IMAGE_INSTALL_append = " kernel-modules"
This is an easier fix, but also requires more space in the image than the previous solution, since all modules will be included, not just the missing one.
There are reports of some systems having trouble running the U-Boot boot commands and getting stuck at the U-Boot prompt. This has, notably, been reported to happen on the Raspberry Pi family of boards with certain serial port adapters. In the failing scenario, it is believed that the serial port adapter is electrically noisy resulting in spurious data on the console that is interpreted by U-Boot as the user intentionally interrupting the boot process. It is unclear which brands of serial port adapters cause this issue or if certain boards are more susceptible than others.
If you are experiencing this issue, there are several proposed workarounds that you should try:
Disable the serial console by editing config.txt. With Yocto builds you can set the following in your local.conf to disable this:
ENABLE_UART = "0"
Change the U-Boot configuration to disable the UART for console input. Adding the following to the U-Boot environment has been reported to address this in some situations:
setenv stdout lcd
setenv stderr lcd
setenv stdin usbkbd
Modify the U-Boot code to require a different key sequence to interrupt the boot. Some tweaking of the following settings in the U-Boot code may help here:
#define CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_KEYED
#define CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_PROMPT \
"\nRPi - booting... stop with ENTER\n"
#define CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_DELAY_STR "\r"
#define CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_DELAY_STR2 "\n"