28 Jun
2007
28 Jun
'07
5:58 p.m.
Well, if the unauthorised user does not know the string so it is actually a password. What happened in my case was that U-boot was stuck until I entered the autoboot keystring. I expected it to autoboot after 5 seconds which did not happen.
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Ori Idan
On 6/28/07, nicky geerts nicky.geerts.news@gmail.com wrote:
> the autoboot keystring is actually a string that allows you to enter
> command line interface of u-boot, not a boot password to prevent
> booting by unauthorised users.
>
> Nicky
>
> 2007/6/28, Ori Idan ori@helicontech.co.il:
> > I am using a board similar to IXDP425 and would like a password for boot.
> > I have defined CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_KEYED
> > And also defined: CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_PROMPT and CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_DELAY_STR
> >
> > We got the CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_PROMPT but it sayed forever or until we
> > typed the password.
> >
> > When compiling we got undefined reference to get_ticks and get_tbclk
> > We copied these functions from cpu/arm925t/interrupts.c to cpu/ixp/interrupts.c
> >
> > What might have gone wrong?
> >
> > --
> > Ori Idan
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