Example of Balloon bootup screen
This is what you should expect to see when a 2.05g Balloon boots up (for versions shipped with 2.4.25 kernel):
There will be differences with different flavours of hardware, different kernels and different configs or root filesystems, but this gives you the general idea.
Uncompressing Linux................................................... done, booting the kernel. Linux version 2.4.19-rmk4-tcl2-b1-james (root@linkwood) (gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (release)) #2 Mon Jul 7 20:00:10 BST 23CPU: Intel StrongARM-1110 revision 9 Machine: Balloon Security risk: creating user accessible mapping for 0x00000000 at 0xe8000000 Security risk: creating user accessible mapping for 0x08000000 at 0xf0000000 Security risk: creating user accessible mapping for 0x10000000 at 0xf1000000 Security risk: creating user accessible mapping for 0x40000000 at 0xf3000000 On node 0 totalpages: 16384 zone(0): 16384 pages. zone(1): 0 pages. zone(2): 0 pages. Kernel command line: noinitrd root=/dev/mtdblock2 init=/linuxrc console=ttySA0 rootfstype=yaffs cpufreq=59000-206400 ma Console: colour dummy device 80x30 Calibrating delay loop... 137.21 BogoMIPS Memory: 64MB = 64MB total Memory: 63056KB available (1337K code, 325K data, 64K init) Dentry cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) Inode cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes) Mount-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 1, 8192 bytes) Buffer-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 Initializing RT netlink socket CPU clock: 206.400 MHz (59.000-206.400 MHz) balloon_io_setup: setting up balloon i/o interface Starting kswapd devfs: v1.12a (20020514) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au) devfs: boot_options: 0x1 Balloon CPLD L3 support added Balloon i2c gpio support added ttySA%d0 at MEM 0x80050000 (irq = 17) is a SA1100 ttySA%d1 at MEM 0x80010000 (irq = 15) is a SA1100 ttySA%d2 at MEM 0x80030000 (irq = 16) is a SA1100 Balloon Monochrome Framebuffer 4bpp Comparing font name VGA8x8 with Acorn8x8 Comparing font name VGA8x16 with Acorn8x8 Comparing font name Acorn8x8 with Acorn8x8 Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 40x30 Initialising Keyboard Balloon keyboard driver v1.0 Initialising Keyboard completed pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured Balloon Keyboard Access loop: loaded (max 8 devices) SA1100 flash: probing 16-bit flash bus Amd/Fujitsu Extended Query Table v1.1 at 0x0040 number of CFI chips: 1 cfi_cmdset_0002: Disabling fast programming due to code brokenness. Using static partition definition Creating 1 MTD partitions on "SA1100 flash": 0x00030000-0x00040000 : "Balloon params" mtd: Giving out device 0 to Balloon params nand0_boot_size is 0 Initialising Balloon NAND MTD devices. NAND device: Manufacture ID: 0xec, Chip ID: 0x76 (Samsung K9D1208V0M) Creating 2 MTD partitions on "Samsung K9D1208V0M": 0x00000000-0x00100000 : "nand boot" mtd: Giving out device 1 to nand boot 0x00100000-0x02000000 : "nand root" mtd: Giving out device 2 to nand root Initialising of First Balloon NAND MTD was successful. No NAND device found!!! Unable to find second Balloon NAND device. usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs usb.c: registered new driver hub NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 4096 bind 4096) NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. NetWinder Floating Point Emulator V0.95 (c) 1998-1999 Rebel.com yaffs: dev is 7938 name is "1f:02" VFS: Mounted root (yaffs filesystem). Mounted devfs on /dev Freeing init memory: 64K Setting up RAMFS, please wait... depmod: /lib/modules/2.4.19-rmk4-tcl2-b1-james/modules.ieee1394map is not an ELF file depmod: error reading ELF header /lib/modules/2.4.19-rmk4-tcl2-b1-james/modules.pnpbiosmap: No such file or directory depmod: /lib/modules/2.4.19-rmk4-tcl2-b1-james/modules.ieee1394map is not an ELF file depmod: error reading ELF header /lib/modules/2.4.19-rmk4-tcl2-b1-james/modules.pnpbiosmap: No such file or directory Setting up some devices Executing /sbin/init... INIT: version 2.78 booting Not recalculating module dependencies Loading modules: apm sa1100-rtc Using /lib/modules/2.4.19-rmk4-tcl2-b1-james/kernel/drivers/char/sa1100-rtc.o SA1100 Real Time Clock driver v1.00 balloon-uda1341 Using /lib/modules/2.4.19-rmk4-tcl2-b1-james/kernel/drivers/sound/sa1100-audio.o Using /lib/modules/2.4.19-rmk4-tcl2-b1-james/kernel/drivers/sound/balloon-uda1341.o Balloon audio support initialized 0x00000000-0x00100000 : "nand boot" mtd: Giving out device 1 to nand boot 0x00100000-0x02000000 : "nand root" mtd: Giving out device 2 to nand root Initialising of First Balloon NAND MTD was successful. No NAND device found!!! Unable to find second Balloon NAND device. usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs usb.c: registered new driver hub NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 4096 bind 4096) NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. NetWinder Floating Point Emulator V0.95 (c) 1998-1999 Rebel.com yaffs: dev is 7938 name is "1f:02" VFS: Mounted root (yaffs filesystem). Mounted devfs on /dev Freeing init memory: 64K Setting up RAMFS, please wait... depmod: /lib/modules/2.4.19-rmk4-tcl2-b1-james/modules.ieee1394map is not an ELF file depmod: error reading ELF header /lib/modules/2.4.19-rmk4-tcl2-b1-james/modules.pnpbiosmap: No such file or directory depmod: /lib/modules/2.4.19-rmk4-tcl2-b1-james/modules.ieee1394map is not an ELF file depmod: error reading ELF header /lib/modules/2.4.19-rmk4-tcl2-b1-james/modules.pnpbiosmap: No such file or directory Setting up some devices Executing /sbin/init... INIT: version 2.78 booting Not recalculating module dependencies Loading modules: apm sa1100-rtc Using /lib/modules/2.4.19-rmk4-tcl2-b1-james/kernel/drivers/char/sa1100-rtc.o SA1100 Real Time Clock driver v1.00 balloon-uda1341 Using /lib/modules/2.4.19-rmk4-tcl2-b1-james/kernel/drivers/sound/sa1100-audio.o Using /lib/modules/2.4.19-rmk4-tcl2-b1-james/kernel/drivers/sound/balloon-uda1341.o Balloon audio support initialized sa11xx-uda1341 snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss sa1100_cs Using /lib/modules/2.4.19-rmk4-tcl2-b1-james/kernel/drivers/pcmcia/poLinux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22 options: [pm] Using /lib/modules/2.4.19-rmk4-tcl2-b1-james/kernel/drivers/pcmcia/sa1100_cs.o SA-1100 PCMCIA (CS release 3.1.22) sa1100 usb-eth Using /lib/modules/2.4.19-rmk4-tcl2-b1-james/kernel/arch/arm/mach-sa1100/sa1100usb_core.o SA1100 USB Controller Core Initialized Using /lib/modules/2.4.19-rmk4-tcl2-b1-james/kernel/arch/arm/mach-sa1100/usb-eth.o usbctl: Opened for usb-eth usbctl: Started for usb-eth balloon_kbd Using /lib/modules/2.4.19-rmk4-tcl2/kernel/arch/arm/mach-sa1100/balloon_kbd.o Mounting local filesystems... yaffs: dev is 7937 name is "1f:01" mount: Mounting sysfs on /sys failed: No such device Setting the System Clock using the Hardware Clock as reference... INIT: Entering runlevel: 2 Configuring network interfaces: /etc/network/ifstate: No such file or directory done. Not recalculating module dependencies Loading modules: apm sa1100-rtc Using /lib/modules/2.4.19-rmk4-tcl2-b1-james/kernel/drivers/char/sa1100-rtc.o balloon-uda1341 Using /lib/modules/2.4.19-rmk4-tcl2-b1-james/kernel/drivers/sound/sa1100-audio.o Using /lib/modules/2.4.19-rmk4-tcl2-b1-james/kernel/drivers/sound/balloon-uda1341.o snd-sa11xx-uda1341 snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss sa1100_cs Using /lib/modules/2.4.19-rmk4-tcl2-b1-james/kernel/drivers/pcmcia/poUsing /lib/modules/2.4.19-rmk4-tcl2-b1-james/kernel/drivers/pcmcia/sa1100_cs.o sa1100 usb-eth Using /lib/modules/2.4.19-rmk4-tcl2-b1-james/kernel/arch/arm/mach-sa1100/sa1100usb_core.o Using /lib/modules/2.4.19-rmk4-tcl2-b1-james/kernel/arch/arm/mach-sa1100/usb-eth.o balloon_kbd Using /lib/modules/2.4.19-rmk4-tcl2/kernel/arch/arm/mach-sa1100/balloon_kbd.o Starting internet superserver: inetd. Starting syslogd/klogd: done Starting thttpd...