[U-Boot] booting initramfs

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Wed Sep 17 20:46:14 CEST 2008


Dear cjjoy1980,

In message <19531737.post at talk.nabble.com> you wrote:
> 
> 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:
...
> 1. Where am I going wrong. Can I not boot using Initramfs, or should I
> create Ramdisk image only for booting the board.

Initramfs != ramdisk.

> 2. If I need to create ramdisk using genext2fs is there any size
> restriction, that the file size should be
> less than 8 MB?

No.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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