[U-Boot-Users] Booting Multi Image FIle

Alemao xcarandiru at gmail.com
Wed Jul 2 16:28:52 CEST 2008


My apologies, i was using ramdisk image with some headers... thats why
kernel couldnt find it.

Cheers,

--
Alemao

On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 10:04 AM, Alemao <xcarandiru at gmail.com> wrote:
> Actually i havent read, cause im using u-boot 1.1.14
>
> What im trying to do is using a multi-image file with this version.
>
> If i do:  bootm ${kernel_addr} ${ramdisk_addr} ${fdt_addr}
> everything is OK, the problem for me is getting this addresses, i
> had to browse the image with a hex editor.
>
> If i do: bootm ${kernel_addr}
> the kernel doesnt find ramdisk
>
> So i have to find a way for getting it works using just the command above.
>
> Move to u-boot 1.3.3 is not a good idea right now.
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Alemao
>
> On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 8:43 AM, Detlev Zundel <dzu at denx.de> wrote:
>> Hi Alemao,
>>
>>> bootm ${kernel_addr} ${ramdisk_addr} ${fdt_addr}
>>>
>>> But, is there a way of getting this values instead of searching with a
>>> hexeditor through the image??
>>
>> So you read doc/uImage.FIT/command_syntax_extension.txt containing this
>> example at the end:
>>
>> - boot "kernel at 2" from a new uImage at 200000, with initrd "ramdisk at 1"
>>  and FDT
>>  "fdt at 1", both stored in some other new uImage located at 800000:
>> bootm 200000:kernel at 1 800000:ramdisk at 1 800000:fdt at 1
>>
>> And you still have questions? ;)
>>
>> Cheers
>>  Detlev
>>
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