[U-Boot] booting initramfs
cjjoy1980
cjjoy1980 at gmail.com
Wed Sep 17 15:07:54 CEST 2008
Hi all!
I am trying to boot my board with initramfs file system. After loading the
kernel image and initramfs onto uboot, executing bootm command gave me
errors of "bad magic number". Then I tried to append header information
using
mkimage, here's what I executed:
/tools/mkimage -A ppc -O linux -T filesystem -C gzip -n 'Initramfs root
file' -d /exports/myinitramfs.cpio.gz myramfs
Image Name: Initramfs root file
Created: Tue Sep 16 21:28:41 2008
Image Type: PowerPC Linux Filesystem Image (gzip compressed)
Data Size: 51685255 Bytes = 50473.88 kB = 49.29 MB
Load Address: 0x00000000
Entry Point: 0x00000000
When I try to boot this image, I am getting "No Linux PPC Ramdisk Image"
## Loading RAMDisk Image at 00900000 ...
Image Name: Initramfs root file
Image Type: PowerPC Linux Unknown Image (gzip compressed)
Data Size: 51685255 Bytes = 49.3 MB
Load Address: 00000000
Entry Point: 00000000
Verifying Checksum ... OK
No Linux PPC Ramdisk Image
(u-boot restarts after this)
1. Where am I going wrong. Can I not boot using Initramfs, or should I
create Ramdisk image only for booting the board.
2. If I need to create ramdisk using genext2fs is there any size
restriction, that the file size should be
less than 8 MB?
Please let me know.
Thanks,
joy
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