[U-Boot-Users] need for explaination

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Tue Jul 31 15:42:54 CEST 2007


rameah nathan wrote:
> Hi All,
>          I like to clarify one doubt ,when i try to boot my kernel using
> ramdisk image via bootm command .I have back traced the cmd_bootm.c(Version
> u_boot-1.1.6 in the common directory) our code flow hangs at the following
> function:
> 
>   (*kernel) (kbd, initrd_start, initrd_end, cmd_start, cmd_end);
> 
> it's calling function pointer .It hangs at this call can any one help me out
> where is the exact definition of this function call so that i can proceed
> further.

That's the branch to the kernel.  Either you didn't load the kernel 
properly, or (more likely) the kernel simply isn't working, and needs to 
be debugged.

-Scott




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