[U-Boot-Users] Booting From hard disk.

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Sun Dec 12 18:55:57 CET 2004


In message <eae046ff041212015556cbc541 at mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
> 
> We are able to write the image in the raw partition of harddisk,
> and we are able to see the u-boot header contents once we boot from the image.
> 
> But, it is restarting the target board after coming till "Starting
> Kernel" & also we put some debug statements & it is restarting just
> before  "theKernel" ( in armlinux.c)

Are you sure that your image is working at all? Does it boot when you
download it over TFTP and boot then?

> We  are able to get the header information.. We are in doubt about what 
> address we need to give for load address & entry point.( we have given
> 0000000 for both).

You should know the memory map of your board better that we.  In  any
case it seems likely to me that there is flash or ROM at address 0 on
your  board,  and  not  RAM,  so  using  0x0000 as load & entry point
address is obviously plain wrong.

> Whether the control is in the kernel or still in the Bootloader ?

Neither one nor the  other.  U-Boot  is  _attempting_  to  start  the
kernel, which is not there where you pretend it is.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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