[U-Boot] Fwd: Re: Boot Linux kernel with initramfs fails

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Fri Jan 17 12:07:45 CET 2014


Dear Jean-Baptiste,

In message <52D8FBF8.2060106 at gmail.com> you wrote:
> 
> I forgot some explanations, sorry about that.
> 
> I refer to this problem :
> http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2013-July/159055.html

And there you wrote:

| When I boot Linux kernel with FIT Image, the kernel does not unpacking initramfs.
| ( The root cause is "initrd_start is NULL".)
| 
| The initramfs is built-in with kernel, so I don't specify ramdisk in my
| kernel.its file.

initramfs handling is internal to Linux.  This is not a problem with
U-Boot.

Check how you build your kernel image and make sure the initramfs
image (and a working one) gets processed there.


Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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