[U-Boot] Boot from jffs2 filesystem problem

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Thu Sep 4 17:09:57 CEST 2008


On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 02:04:42PM +0200, Pedro Luis D. L. wrote:
> It seems to me that U-boot is trying to boot from RAMDisk instead of booting the kernel, but I'm not sure.
> The same kernel is working properly on a phytec board and 1.2.0 U-boot, 
> so it's not a problem with jffs2 support within the kernel.
> Any hint how to boot from jffs2 filesystem? The example in U-Boot documentation doesn't use oftree and so, 
> bootm ${kernel_addr} is used, but TQM5200 requieres FDT description to boot linux as you'll know.
> Maybe should I compile the U-boot using some CONFIG_ parameter?

Sounds like maybe you're trying to pass the FDT address as the second
bootm parameter?  It needs to be the third parameter, and you pass - as
the second parameter if there's no initrd.

-Scott


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