>-- Original Message -- >From: Srini Amble <samble at xopnetworks.com> >Reply-To: samble at xopnetworks.com >To: Linuxppc-Embedded <linuxppc-embedded at lists.linuxppc.org> >Subject: Kernel boot >Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 16:44:53 -0600 > > > >I am using ELDK-2.0 to create a bootable kernel image for PPC8xx. I have >PPCBoot on my target and I want to download the kernel from the host to the >target using TFTP boot. I have verified that I can transfer the image via >TFTP boot. I am creating the initrd image using the following sequence of >commands. > >1. make config >2. make dep >3. make clean >4. make zImage.initrd >5. Compress the "zvmlinux.initrd" executable using "gzip" >6. Execute mkimage command to prepare it for "ppcboot" > >After the image is downloaded the kernel image is uncompressed without any >errors. But then I get the messsage "No initrd" and the system no longer >responds. Can one of you please point to where I may be going wrong?
For PPCBoot you normally build a pImage with: make pImage and building a RAMDisk image is done differently as well. Have a look to chapter 5 and 6 of the DENX PPCBoot and Linux Guide at http://www.denx.de/doc/TQM8xxL/. The ELDK 2.0 comes already with a working pRamdisk image provided by the RPM package SELF.It can be found in "ppc_8xx/images". You need the SRPM if you want to modify it. Also check ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/LinuxPPC/usr/src/SELF/. Hope it helps, Wolfgang. ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
