[U-Boot-Users] I will be crazy, Please HELP
Wolfgang Denk
wd at denx.de
Wed Apr 9 10:01:32 CEST 2003
In message <01a401c2febe$6f3809a0$fe02a8c0 at esd11> you wrote:
> after two days, I still cannot boot a kernel from u-boot,
> 1.first I build my linux kernel by:
> make lubbock
> make oldconfig
> make dep
> make zImage
> 2.then I follow the README file to product uImage,
> arm-linux-objcopy -O binary -R .note -R .comment -S vmlinux linux.bin
> gzip -9 linux.bin
> mkimage -A arm -O linux -T kernel -C gzip -a 0xa0008000 -e 0xa0008000 -n
> "Linux Kernel Image" -d linux.bin.gz uImage
> 3.then I use u-boot to load it:
> =>loadb 0xa0008000
> =>bootm 0xa0008000
> ## Booting image at a0008000 ...
> Image Name: Linux Kernel Image
> Image Type: ARM Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
> Data Size: 791662 Bytes = 773.1 kB
> Load Address: a0008000
> Entry Point: a0008000
This is wrong. Load the image to RAM at a _different_ address. You
overwrite your own code.
Wolfgang Denk
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