From:  Daniel Hastings <[email protected]>
Reply-To:  <[email protected]>
Date:  Friday, May 16, 2014 at 10:06 AM
To:  <[email protected]>
Subject:  Re: [beagleboard] Trying to compile kernel for BBB, hangs on
"booting the kernel"

> Pardon my ignorance, but how does one use a zImage with uBoot?
If you stop at the u-boot prompt, do a printenv. You will see a line with
bootz and this is what boots zImage.

Regards,
John
> 
> 
> On Friday, May 16, 2014 9:45:17 AM UTC-7, Daniel Hastings wrote:
>> Thanks Robert, I'll give it a try.
>> 
>> On Friday, May 16, 2014 9:26:01 AM UTC-7, RobertCNelson wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 11:16 AM, Robert Nelson <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 11:09 AM, Daniel Hastings
>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> Hi John,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thank you for the suggestion.
>>>>> 
>>>>> The reason I had tried that is because I didn't know about it. I've taken
>>>>> a look and noticed that there is no defconfig for the beaglebone black in
>>>>> arch/arm/configs/
>>>>> 
>>>>> Further, there is no uImage in deploy after running the build_kernel
>>>>> script. I think that can be remedied with proper application of mkimage
>>>>> from uboot but I haven't had time to try it yet.
>>>> 
>>>> It's trivial to convert a zImage to uImage, but it's just easier to use a
>>>> zImage
>>>> 
>>>>  
>>>>> I'm concerned that an image built in this manner won 't have the propoer
>>>>> support for the beaglebone black hardware, the prus in particular, do you
>>>>> know if it would or not?
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Laughs, considering the official images use the kernel from that exact
>>>> repo, your concern is well nutz. ;)
>>> 
>>> Just make sure you select the correct branch, there's a couple other
>>> projects in that repo.
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> Robert Nelson
>>> http://www.rcn-ee.com/
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