Thanks for your tip! On my pandaborad, system will boot after Re-inserting the SD Card. It seems that SD Card insert event will trigger the booting procedure.

2012/9/4 Viresh Kumar viresh.kumar@linaro.org

Hi Guys,

I have struggled today for some time to soft-reset panda board because the switch S1 (PWRON_RESET) resets the board, but doesn't start booting it again from xloader. Prompt simply hangs !!

My kernel was crashing after uncompressing linux... print. I didn't had a debugger to see value of __log_buf variable. So i wanted to soft reset the board and check content of memory at address pointed by __log_buf.

I wanted to keep the contents of RAM as it is, so can't reboot it by unplugging the power cable.

At last i found the trick to soft-reset the board with help of S1 button. Following are the steps:

• Press S1 once, LED D1 will switch off
• remove SD card
• reinsert the card
• Press S1 again, LED D1 will switch on and board is rebooted, keeping

RAM's contents as is.

Hope, this will help somebody in future.

-- viresh

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