[U-Boot-Users] Expanding the Linux Kernel

Jerry Walden jwalden at digitalatlantic.com
Wed Mar 12 16:38:39 CET 2003


>Two ideas:
>
>* Test if your image is OK:
>
>	bash$ dd if=vmlinux.PPCBoot of=/tmp/vmlinux.gz bs=64 skip=1
>	bash$ gzip -vt /tmp/vmlinux.gz

The image verified

>* Try downloading to a lower address, like 0x200000
This works!

Thanks Much!

Jerry

-----Original Message-----
From: u-boot-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:u-boot-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net]On Behalf Of Wolfgang
Denk
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 5:35 PM
To: jwalden at digitalatlantic.com
Cc: u-boot-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [U-Boot-Users] Expanding the Linux Kernel


In message <EGEGIJHKDKJGAJMGIDPNIEAOCJAA.jwalden at digitalatlantic.com> you
wrote:
>
> Now here is the problem - when I invoke the u-boot command bootm as
follows:
>
> bootm 0x01000000
>
> The result is as follows:
> Image Name:		Linux-2.4.17-mvl-walnut
> Image Type:		PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
> Data Size:		590251 Bytes = 576.4 KB
> Load Address:	00000000
> Entry Point:	00000000
> Verifying Checksum: ...ok
> Error: Inflate returned -3

Two ideas:

* Test if your image is OK:

	bash$ dd if=vmlinux.PPCBoot of=/tmp/vmlinux.gz bs=64 skip=1
	bash$ gzip -vt /tmp/vmlinux.gz

* Try downloading to a lower address, like 0x200000

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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