[U-Boot] Boot from jffs2 filesystem problem

Pedro Luis D. L. carcadiz at hotmail.com
Thu Sep 4 17:21:57 CEST 2008


> On Thu, 4 Sep 2008 10:09:57 -0500 Scott wrote:

> 
> 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.
> 

I've already tried with:
 - bootm ${kernel_addr} - ${fdt_addr}
 - bootm ${kernel_addr} ${fdt_addr}
 - bootm ${kernel_addr} ${jffs2_addr} ${fdt_addr}
 - bootm ${kernel_addr} ${fdt_addr} ${jffs2_addr}

And always with the same result...

Pedro.

> -Scott

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