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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi All,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>thanx all for ur kind help...the problem was
neither due to Memory Mapping nor CRC check...</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I tried the same old routine method of debugging,
which is the best...</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>puts( )..</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>It was all due to the assignment statement in
devices_init( ) in devices.c</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>"gd->flags |= ".....</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>which is declared using DECLARE_GLOBAL_DATA_PTR in
asm/global_data.h</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Well as of now i have commented that, and my board
seems to boot fine...</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>But while loading Linux....phew!!! Have a look
below...</FONT></DIV>
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size=2>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>:>tftpboot<BR>ARP broadcast 1<BR>ARP broadcast
2<BR>TFTP from server 192.168.6.200; our IP address is 192.168.6.221<BR>Filename
'vmlinuz-2.4.4.n2'.<BR>Load address: 0x100000<BR>Loading:
#################################################################<BR>
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#<BR>done<BR>Bytes transferred = 666865 (a2cf1 hex)<BR>:>bootm<BR>## Booting
image at 00100000 ...<BR> Image Name: Linux 2.4.4
(allfs)<BR> Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip
compressed)<BR> Data Size: 666801 Bytes = 651.2
kB<BR> Load Address: 00000000<BR> Entry Point:
00000000<BR> Verifying Checksum ... OK<BR> Uncompressing
Kernel Image ... OK</FONT></DIV>
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size=2>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Now my system hangs.....Any guesses
guys....?????</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Again, i have already started looking into to
Kernel using grep and xargs......thanx to Jerry and Marius ..</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>thanx again...</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>adios</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Sid.<BR></DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>