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Dear friends, <BR>
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i am unable to boot my ixdp425 boot with RAM disk support. I have compiled 2.4.19-rmk7-ds1 kernel with RAM disk, initrd, ext2 file system support. i have loaded my compressed RAM disk into flash too. <BR>
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while booting the kernel i got the following errors. <BR>
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## Booting image at 50040000 ...<BR>
Image Name: Linux Kernel Image<BR>
Image Type: ARM Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)<BR>
Data Size: 618414 Bytes = 603.9 kB<BR>
Load Address: 00008000<BR>
Entry Point: 00008000<BR>
Verifying Checksum ... OK<BR>
Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK<BR>
## Loading Ramdisk Image at 50160000 ...<BR>
Image Name: Simple Ramdisk<BR>
Image Type: ARM Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)<BR>
Data Size: 2803063 Bytes = 2.7 MB<BR>
Load Address: 00000000<BR>
Entry Point: 00000000<BR>
Verifying Checksum ... OK<BR>
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Starting kernel ...<BR>
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Uncompressing Linux........................................... done, booting the kernel.<BR>
Linux version 2.4.19-rmk7-ds1 (root@Gargouille.comodoindia) (gcc version 3.2.1) #4 Mon May 31 12:19:01 IST 2004<BR>
CPU: XScale-IXP4xx/IXC11xx revision 1<BR>
Machine: Intel IXDP425 Development Platform<BR>
alloc_bootmem_low<BR>
memtable_init<BR>
On node 0 totalpages: 4096<BR>
zone(0): 4096 pages.<BR>
zone(1): 0 pages.<BR>
zone(2): 0 pages.<BR>
Kernel command line: <FONT COLOR="#ff0000">root=/dev/ram rw mem=16M console=ttyS0,115200</FONT><BR>
Calibrating delay loop... 263.78 BogoMIPS<BR>
Memory: 16MB = 16MB total<BR>
Memory: 14736KB available (985K code, 239K data, 208K init)<BR>
XScale Cache/TLB Locking Copyright(c) 2001 MontaVista Software, Inc.<BR>
Dentry cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)<BR>
Inode cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)<BR>
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)<BR>
Buffer-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)<BR>
Page-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)<BR>
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX<BR>
PCI: bus0: Fast back to back transfers enabled<BR>
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4<BR>
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039<BR>
Sangoma WANPIPE Router v1.1 (c) 1995-2000 Sangoma Technologies Inc.<BR>
Initializing RT netlink socket<BR>
Starting kswapd<BR>
i2c-dev.o: Registered 'IXP425 I2C Adapter' as minor 0<BR>
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured<BR>
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI enabled<BR>
ttyS00 at 0xff000003x (irq = 15) is a XScale UART<BR>
ttyS01 at 0xff001003x (irq = 13) is a XScale UART<BR>
Loaded PCF8594C2 I2C EEPROM NVRAM driver<BR>
<FONT COLOR="#ff0000">RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4192K size 1024 blocksize</FONT><BR>
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)<BR>
Using buffer write method<BR>
Using static MTD partitions.<BR>
Creating 2 MTD partitions on "IXP425 Flash":<BR>
0x00040000-0x00440000 : "image"<BR>
0x00440000-0x00fc0000 : "user"<BR>
blkmtd: starting<BR>
blkmtd: error, missing `device' name<BR>
ftl_cs: FTL header not found.<BR>
ftl_cs: FTL header not found.<BR>
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0<BR>
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP<BR>
IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes<BR>
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 1024 bind 2048)<BR>
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.<BR>
NetWinder Floating Point Emulator V0.95 (c) 1998-1999 Rebel.com<BR>
<FONT COLOR="#ff0000">Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:00</FONT>
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expecting ur commands<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#008000"><B><I>Thanks<BR>
Prakash</TT></B></FONT>
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