When soft rebooting the Linux kernel gets stuck in “Uncompressing Linux… done, booting the kernel”… here is a solution to the problem.
When soft rebooting the Linux kernel gets stuck in “Uncompressing Linux… done, booting the kernel”
I’m using Linux kernel 3.0.21 on my custom hardware.
When I first boot the hardware, it boots successfully.
If I shut down properly and start the hardware again, it boots successfully.
But once the system starts running, reboots the kernel and hangs when I enter the reboot command
Starting kernel ...
Uncompressing Linux... done, booting the kernel.
I
don’t know why I’m having this issue every time I soft reboot. To avoid this, I need a hard reset (power off and on again).
Why am I experiencing this issue?
Are there any cleanup features missing from the kernel?
How do I debug this issue?