[U-Boot-Users] initrd problem...

Michael Frey mfrey at pepper.com
Mon Apr 26 01:19:24 CEST 2004


Thanks for the pointer to the patch.  I am using Monta VistaLinux tree. 
  I am able to however get initrd working by doing cp.b before I boot.  
This seems to work great and is very fast.  My initrd is only ~200k.

Thanks for the help,
Michael

On Apr 25, 2004, at 10:51 AM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:

> In message <20040425141133.25930.qmail at web60505.mail.yahoo.com> you 
> wrote:
>> Michael:  It looks like you have two boot loaders.
>
> No.
>
>> Try using "make uImage" when you build your kernel so
>> the parameters from u-boot are seen by the kernel.
>
> To me it seems as if he was using a MV based tree  which  is  missing
> the  zero-copy  ramdisk  fix. This has been discussed before. See for
> example http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=6839224
>
> Best regards,
>
> Wolfgang Denk
>
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