Corrupted ramdisk image

2002-01-03 Thread Brian Kuschak
I'm upgrading from 2.4.3 to 2.4.17 (rsync from mvista) on a Walnut-variant board. The initrd seems to be getting corrupted. The kernel crashes during the decompress or prints crc error or invalid compressed format messages. I have allocated enough space by using the 'ramdisk=32000' command

Corrupted ramdisk image

2002-01-03 Thread Jerry Van Baren
Since nobody with real knowledge of the problem has responded, I'll take a WAG. This looks like a variation on a PPCBoot FAQ... If I'm reading your numbers correctly, your linux kernel is loading from 0040 to 00A72890, but your initrd image is initially loaded at 00405200. If you do the

Corrupted ramdisk image

2002-01-03 Thread Brian Kuschak
ramdisk image Since nobody with real knowledge of the problem has responded, I'll take a WAG. This looks like a variation on a PPCBoot FAQ... If I'm reading your numbers correctly, your linux kernel is loading from 0040 to 00A72890, but your initrd image is initially loaded at 00405200

Corrupted ramdisk image

2002-01-03 Thread Tom Rini
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 03:21:18PM -0800, Brian Kuschak wrote: Changing the mktree.c file to put the entry point at 0x40 instead of 0x50 fixes the problem for me. mktree takes an argument (last one, iirc) of an optional entry point. The IBM Spruce platform takes advantage of this. --