[U-Boot-Users] Booting kernel with initrd

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Tue Aug 31 22:14:39 CEST 2004


In message <009301c48f4b$c7be6780$26b0758c at nsysusdizae8ul> you wrote:
> u can load image to 0x00800000 and type command to set bootargs like below:
> setenv bootargs root=/dev/ram0 mem=128M initrd=0x00800000,16M

This is only needed for broken (Linux) ports.  Normally  U-Boot  will
directly pass the ramdisk address top the Linux kernel.

Please see the corrct and recommended use of the  "bottm"  comand  in
the manual.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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