[U-Boot-Users] Newbie... still stuck with RAM disk

Luke Fimmerzane lukefimmerzane at hotmail.com
Thu Mar 18 18:23:48 CET 2004


Finally got access to hardware again. So here's the full o/p from my ARM 
target.
Still trying to get a root file system on a RAM disk. Without any success.
Here's o/p from my booting.... Again apologies if its in-appropriate. I'm 
absolutely stuck!

The RAM disk is programmed into FLASH at 0x8200000. The kernel is tftpeed to 
RAM at 0x30300000

my bootargs are root=/dev/ram

A couple of questions before I'm roasted.......

-> Do I need CONFIG_SETUP_MEMORY_TAGS enabled
-> Do I need CONFIG_INITRD_TAG enabled
-> Should CONFIG_DEVFS_FS be enabled in kernel?
-> Should CONFIG_DEVFS_MOUNT be enabled in kernel
-> When running mkimage for RAM disk what relevance are load and entry 
addresses. My
'Karim Yaghmour' book says not needed.
-> Do I need to specify 'initrd='
-> Do I need to specify 'initrd_start='

Sorry for appearing dumb but there are so many combinations...... and I have 
already tried so many
my head is spinning.

Thanks,
Luke

bootm 30300000 8200000
## Booting image at 30300000 ...
  Image Name:   2.4.18 rmk pxa1
  Created:      2004-03-16  17:44:43 UTC
  Image Type:   ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
  Data Size:    664024 Bytes = 648.5 kB
  Load Address: 30008000
  Entry Point:  30008000
  Verifying Checksum ... OK
OK
## Loading Ramdisk Image at 08200000 ...
  Image Name:   RAM disk
  Created:      2004-03-16  14:46:33 UTC
  Image Type:   ARM Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
  Data Size:    4164813 Bytes =  4 MB
  Load Address: 00000000
  Entry Point:  00000000
  Verifying Checksum ... OK

Starting kernel ...

Uncompressing Linux................................................ done, 
bootin
g the kernel.
Linux version 2.4.18-rmk7-pxa1 (lukef at target1) (gcc version 2.95.2 20000516 
(rel
ease) [Rebel.com]) #16 Tue Mar 16 17:41:30 GMT 2004
CPU: ARM/CIRRUS Arm920Tsid(wb) revision 0
Machine: Samsung-SMDK2410
On node 0 totalpages: 16384
zone(0): 16384 pages.
zone(1): 0 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Kernel command line: root=/dev/ram
DEBUG: timer count 15626
Console: colour dummy device 80x30
Calibrating delay loop... 49.86 BogoMIPS
Memory: 64MB = 64MB total
Memory: 62880KB available (1253K code, 257K data, 76K init)
Dentry-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
Buffer-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
CPU clock = 200.000 Mhz, HCLK = 100.000 Mhz, PCLK = 50.000 Mhz
Starting kswapd
devfs: v1.10 (20020120) Richard Gooch (rgooch at atnf.csiro.au)
devfs: boot_options: 0x1
ttyS%d0 at I/O 0x50000000 (irq = 52) is a S3C2410
ttyS%d1 at I/O 0x50004000 (irq = 55) is a S3C2410
ttyS%d2 at I/O 0x50008000 (irq = 58) is a S3C2410
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 30x40
Installed S3C2410 frame buffer
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
s3c2410-ts initialized
S3C2410 Real Time Clock Driver v0.1
block: 128 slots per queue, batch=32
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize
eth0: cs8900 rev J(3.3 Volts) found at 0xd0000300
cs89x0 media RJ-45, IRQ 37
No NAND device found!!!
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 4096 bind 4096)
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
NetWinder Floating Point Emulator V0.95 (c) 1998-1999 Rebel.com
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:00

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