Debian fails to boot after some reboots

Sven Bretfeld sven.bretfeld at gmx.ch
Wed Sep 24 02:28:52 CEST 2008


Hello 

I have installed Debian on my SD card already ten times or so. It's
working alright for some time, but after a few days (i.e. after about
5-6 reboots) the system refuses to come up again. I usually run qtopia
From my flash card most of the time and switch to Debian once or twice
a day. At least I whish to.

I installed Debian with a vfat boot partition using the
SD_PART1_FS=vfat option.

Error messages differ from time to time. As far as I can remember, I
had a "root file system not found" the last time with a following
kernel panic. This time the message says:

,----
| Unable to use mmc 1:1 for fatload
| Wrong Image format for bootm command
| ERROR: Can't get kernel image
`----

After a second the boot manager appears again.

What, the heck, can be the problem? Why does it work at first and what
could have corrupted the system subsequently?

Thanks for help

Sven
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