[U-Boot] Problem booting Linux
Remco Poelstra
remco.poelstra at duran-audio.com
Thu Mar 12 16:11:43 CET 2009
Remco Poelstra schreef:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to get Linux booting on an ARM7 (NXP LPC2468). I copy the
> uImage to 0xa1500000 and the romfs.bin to 0xa1800000. I set bootargs to:
> root=/dev/ram initrd=0xa1800000,4000k console=/dev/ttyS0,115200N8
> When I do 'bootm a1500000', it finds the image and tries to uncompress
> it, but it goes silent after printing "Uncompressing Kernel Image ..."
> When I try to create the uImage with
> 'mkimage -A arm -O linux -T kernel -a 0 -e 0 -n "Linux Kernel Image" -d
> linux.bin uImage', I get the following output (mind the absent -C flag):
> -----------
> Image Name: Linux Kernel Image
> Created: Thu Mar 12 15:37:01 2009
> Image Type: ARM Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
> Data Size: 1986268 Bytes = 1939.71 kB = 1.89 MB
> Load Address: 0x00000000
> Entry Point: 0x00000000
> ---------
> bootm also still thinks that the image is compressed and bootm prints:
> Uncompressing Kernel Image ... Error: Bad gzipped data
> GUNZIP: uncompress or overwrite error - must RESET board to recover
>
> How can I make sure that the Linux image can boot?
I just noticed that when I set the load and entry address to 0xa0000000
(the start address of my external RAM), then bootm prints "starting
kernel" and then U-boot resets itself twice....
I think I have no idea what's going on here. Is this a problem in my
U-boot or is it already in the kernel?
Kind regards,
Remco Poelstra
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