Re: bootloading 2.2.1 kernel from RISC OS

[Russell King - ARM Linux Admin]

Nicholas Clark writes:
> If I make zImage then the bootloader says something like "invalid
> compressed data" (err=1) and then halts the system.

Hmm, sounds like the boot loader is not mapping the kernel correctly.

> If I try vmlinux (is that the uncompressed kernel, or am I daft here)
> it just locks up.

This is the expected behaviour.

> I've looked at the top of the zImage file and the first 4 bytes differ
> between 2.2.1 and 2.0.35 but are the same between the 3 2.0.35 kernels
> I have - has the format changed?

Ever so slightly, but I wasn't aware that old loaders couldn't load it.

> I tried downloading the bootladoer from the ARMlinux ftp site, but
> it's dated 1997 so I don't think that'll help me.

There are later - see /pub/armlinux/testing
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