I watched the process do it's thing through: sudo cu -s 115200 -l /dev/ttyUSB0
Boot output:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'Connected.
512 MB
Flash: 0 kB
CPU : Marvell Feroceon (Rev 1)
Streaming disabled
Write allocate disabled
USB 0: host mode
PEX 0: interface detected no Link.
Net: egiga0 [PRIME], egiga1
Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0
SDHC found. Card desciption is:
Manufacturer: 0x1b, OEM "SM"
Product name: "00000", revision 1.0
Serial number: 164881900
Manufacturing date: 5/2012
CRC: 0x00, b0 = 0
2818684 bytes read
## Booting image at 00800000 ...
Image Name: Linux-2.6.39.2
Created: 2011-06-26 6:20:32 UTC
Image Type: ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
Data Size: 2818620 Bytes = 2.7 MB
Load Address: 00008000
Entry Point: 00008000
Verifying Checksum ... OK
OK
Starting kernel ...
Uncompressing Linux... done, booting the kernel.
Initializing cgroup subsys cpu
Linux version 2.6.39.2 (kelly@speedy) (gcc version 4.5.3 (PlugComputer G++ 20110530) ) #2 PREEMPT Sun Jun 26 00:20:28 MDT 2011
CPU: Feroceon 88FR131 [56251311] revision 1 (ARMv5TE), cr=00053977
CPU: VIVT data cache, VIVT instruction cache
Machine: Marvell SheevaPlug Reference Board
Memory policy: ECC disabled, Data cache writeback
Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 130048
Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,115200 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rootdelay=5
PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Memory: 512MB = 512MB total
Memory: 513240k/513240k available, 11048k reserved, 0K highmem
Virtual kernel memory layout:
vector : 0xffff0000 - 0xffff1000 ( 4 kB)
fixmap : 0xfff00000 - 0xfffe0000 ( 896 kB)
DMA : 0xffc00000 - 0xffe00000 ( 2 MB)
vmalloc : 0xe0800000 - 0xfe800000 ( 480 MB)
lowmem : 0xc0000000 - 0xe0000000 ( 512 MB)
modules : 0xbf000000 - 0xc0000000 ( 16 MB)
.init : 0xc0008000 - 0xc0030000 ( 160 kB)
.text : 0xc0030000 - 0xc055a5d4 (5290 kB)
.data : 0xc055c000 - 0xc0590328 ( 209 kB)
SLUB: Genslabs=13, HWalign=32, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=1, Nodes=1
Preemptable hierarchical RCU implementation.
RCU-based detection of stalled CPUs is disabled.
Verbose stalled-CPUs detection is disabled.
NR_IRQS:114
sched_clock: 32 bits at 200MHz, resolution 5ns, wraps every 21474ms
Console: colour dummy device 80x30
Calibrating delay loop... 1191.11 BogoMIPS (lpj=5955584)
pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
CPU: Testing write buffer coherency: ok
devtmpfs: initialized
NET: Registered protocol family 16
Kirkwood: MV88F6281-A0, TCLK=200000000.
Feroceon L2: Enabling L2
Feroceon L2: Cache support initialised.
bio: create slab <bio-0> at 0
vgaarb: loaded
SCSI subsystem initialized
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
usbcore: registered new device driver usb
Switching to clocksource orion_clocksource
Switched to NOHz mode on CPU #0
FS-Cache: Loaded
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 16384)
TCP reno registered
UDP hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
UDP-Lite hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
NET: Registered protocol family 1
RPC: Registered udp transport module.
RPC: Registered tcp transport module.
RPC: Registered tcp NFSv4.1 backchannel transport module.
FS-Cache: Netfs 'nfs' registered for caching
JFFS2 version 2.2. (NAND) © 2001-2006 Red Hat, Inc.
JFS: nTxBlock = 4009, nTxLock = 32077
msgmni has been set to 1002
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered (default)
Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 2 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
serial8250.0: ttyS0 at MMIO 0xf1012000 (irq = 33) is a 16550A
console [ttyS0] enabled
brd: module loaded
loop: module loaded
NAND device: Manufacturer ID: 0xec, Chip ID: 0xdc (Samsung NAND 512MiB 3,3V 8-bit)
Scanning device for bad blocks
Bad eraseblock 364 at 0x000002d80000
Bad eraseblock 365 at 0x000002da0000
Bad eraseblock 1358 at 0x00000a9c0000
Bad eraseblock 1389 at 0x00000ada0000
Creating 3 MTD partitions on "orion_nand":
0x000000000000-0x000000100000 : "u-boot"
0x000000100000-0x000000500000 : "uImage"
0x000000500000-0x000020000000 : "root"
mv643xx_eth: MV-643xx 10/100/1000 ethernet driver version 1.4
mv643xx_eth smi: probed
mv643xx_eth_port mv643xx_eth_port.0: eth0: port 0 with MAC address 00:50:43:01:45:b5
ehci_hcd: USB 2.0 'Enhanced' Host Controller (EHCI) Driver
orion-ehci orion-ehci.0: Marvell Orion EHCI
orion-ehci orion-ehci.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
orion-ehci orion-ehci.0: irq 19, io mem 0xf1050000
orion-ehci orion-ehci.0: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 1 port detected
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
usbcore: registered new interface driver ums-datafab
usbcore: registered new interface driver ums-freecom
usbcore: registered new interface driver ums-jumpshot
usbcore: registered new interface driver ums-sddr09
usbcore: registered new interface driver ums-sddr55
mousedev: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
rtc-mv rtc-mv: rtc core: registered rtc-mv as rtc0
i2c /dev entries driver
cpuidle: using governor ladder
cpuidle: using governor menu
mv_xor_shared mv_xor_shared.0: Marvell shared XOR driver
mv_xor_shared mv_xor_shared.1: Marvell shared XOR driver
mv_xor mv_xor.0: Marvell XOR: ( xor cpy )
mv_xor mv_xor.1: Marvell XOR: ( xor fill cpy )
mv_xor mv_xor.2: Marvell XOR: ( xor cpy )
mv_xor mv_xor.3: Marvell XOR: ( xor fill cpy )
sdhci: Secure Digital Host Controller Interface driver
sdhci: Copyright(c) Pierre Ossman
mmc0: mvsdio driver initialized, lacking card detect (fall back to polling)
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
usbhid: USB HID core driver
oprofile: hardware counters not available
oprofile: using timer interrupt.
TCP cubic registered
NET: Registered protocol family 17
lib80211: common routines for IEEE802.11 drivers
Registering the dns_resolver key type
registered taskstats version 1
rtc-mv rtc-mv: setting system clock to 2029-07-24 03:44:36 UTC (1879559076)
Waiting 5sec before mounting root device...
mmc0: host does not support reading read-only switch. assuming write-enable.
mmc0: new high speed SDHC card at address b368
mmcblk0: mmc0:b368 00000 7.51 GiB
mmcblk0: p1 p2
EXT3-fs: barriers not enabled
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs (mmcblk0p2): using internal journal
EXT3-fs (mmcblk0p2): recovery complete
EXT3-fs (mmcblk0p2): mounted filesystem with writeback data mode
VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) on device 179:2.
Freeing init memory: 160K
systemd[1]: systemd 217 running in system mode. (+PAM -AUDIT -SELINUX -IMA -APPARMOR +SMACK -SYSVINIT +UTMP +LIBCRYPTSETUP +GCRYPT +GNUTLS +ACL +XZ +LZ4 +SECCOMP +BLKID -ELFUTILS +KMOD +IDN )
systemd[1]: Detected architecture 'arm'.
Welcome to Arch Linux ARM!
systemd[1]: Inserted module 'autofs4'
NET: Registered protocol family 10
systemd[1]: Inserted module 'ipv6'
systemd[1]: Set hostname to <alarm>.
systemd[1]: Failed to create root cgroup hierarchy: Invalid argument
systemd[1]: Failed to allocate manager object: Invalid argument
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Issue:
It doesnt simply boot so that I can login the first time...
Suggestions?

I don't believe it aught to do this on stock new distro...
Thanks in advance!