[U-Boot-Users] Re: Kernel Panic

[Will Haines]

Wolfgang Denk <wd <at> denx.de> writes:

> 
> The ramdisk was recognized correctly. It's the content that did 
> not match.
> 
> U-Boot has nothing to do with that.
> 

I can see that my ramdisk was improperly made before, but I am still at a 
loss to understand why if I make a gzipped version of my filesystem, I get 
to this point:

VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Mounted devfs on /dev
Freeing unused kernel memory: 44k init

and the board reboots, bringing me back to the u-boot prompt.  If I make an
uncompressed version, it will boot and even bring me to a Busybox prompt, 
but if I try to execute an ls command, the board reboots.

This problem even occurs when I try to use the test ramdisk filesystem 
provided in the Wiki for u-boot; I get to:

VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Mounted devfs on /dev
Freeing unused kernel memory: 44k init

and the board reboots.  I understand that this probably has nothing to do with
u-boot, but I do not know where else to turn with this problem.  Thank you for
any help you can provide or any other list that might have a better handle on
what is making the board reboot.  Even if there is nothing that you can 
suggest, I thank you for at least taking the time to help me on my previous post.

Will Haines