On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 06:58:01PM -0500, Ashwin Bihari wrote: > >With the stock firmware on a PrPMC800, yes, you have to attach the > >ramdisk to the kernel. You do this by copying the compressed ramdisk > >image to arch/ppc/boot/images/ramdisk.image.gz. Then do a > >'make zImage.initrd'. That will deposit a zImage+initrd image into > >arch/ppc/boot/images/. > > Matt, > > Ahh OK. Thank you for the details. > > >If you have a U-boot port to your board then you can be a lot more > >flexible since it can load a kernel image and ramdisk separately. > > > >-Matt > > We are using PPCBug actually. Not sure if you're familiar with it's > capabilities in comparison to U-boot in ramdisk booting ability.
Yes, very familiar with PPCBug. That is the "stock firmware" I mentioned above. The resultant zImage+initrd image is bootable from PPCBug. -Matt ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
