In message <20020613152000.18777.qmail at webmail22.rediffmail.com> you wrote: > > i use kernel provided bootloader to load image,
This is not what I mean. You must have some sort of firmware running on this board. Obviously it is not PPCBoot, because then things were very simple. There are firmware implementations which can load ELF images, but either load only "conventional" segments (text, data) or those which have the "LOAD" flag set. The "zImage.initrd" contains non-standard segments ("image" and "initrd"), which don't have the "LOAD" flag set. Maybe your firmware does not load all segments... > i am using binary form of zImage > i didnt get u denk ,i dont know abt this elf what u have said ,i > am not sure abt it ,i will check it Maybe reading the "Linux for PowerPC Embedded Systems HOWTO" gives some additional information, see http://penguinppc.org/embedded/howto/PowerPC-Embedded-HOWTO.html Wolfgang Denk -- Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtime Systems, Embedded Linux Phone: (+49)-8142-4596-87 Fax: (+49)-8142-4596-88 Email: wd at denx.de Do not simplify the design of a program if a way can be found to make it complex and wonderful. ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/