[U-Boot-Users] initrd.cramfs.gz.image works?

[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <000a01c2d485$873cc1c0$3cabfe81 at bgjung13> you wrote:
>
> I'd like to boot linux kernel and initrd with "bootm" command.

OK.

> I made initrd with "dd, mkfs -t ext2, gzip and mkimage", it works well.

...as it should :-)

> But I made initrd with "mkcramfs, gzip, and mkimage", it dose not work -
> 'Wrong magic" error message.
> Have you ever been to do like this?

It doesn't work that way. "mkcramfs" creates a cramfs image. This  is
NOT  a  ramdisk  image,  and cannot be used the same way. You have to
write your cramfs image to  a  flash  partition  (according  to  your
partition  scheme  set  by  the  MTD driver, and mount it in Linux as
/dev/mtdblock<N>

You will use a  bootm  <kernel_addr>"  command  in  combination  with
appropriate  settings  of  the "bootargs" variable (i.e. make sure it
contains "root=/dev/mtdblock<N> rw").

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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