Re: initrd and uImage

2008-08-11 Thread Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
On 09:42 Fri 08 Aug , Fundu wrote: > Hi, > First off i have a ppc based board. > and i'm trying to load a kernel image with ramdisk rootfs. Which version of U-Boot do you use? Which features do you enable? > > i have build the kernel. it spit uImage,zImage and vmlinux.gz > > my question are

Re: initrd and uImage

2008-08-11 Thread Josh Boyer
On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 09:12 -0700, Tim Bird wrote: > Fundu wrote: > > Hi, > > First off i have a ppc based board. > > and i'm trying to load a kernel image with ramdisk rootfs. > > > > i have build the kernel. it spit uImage,zImage and vmlinux.gz > > > > my question are. > > 1) what are all the

Re: initrd and uImage

2008-08-11 Thread Tim Bird
Fundu wrote: > Hi, > First off i have a ppc based board. > and i'm trying to load a kernel image with ramdisk rootfs. > > i have build the kernel. it spit uImage,zImage and vmlinux.gz > my question are. > 1) what are all the different image types ? > i know the uImage is just the kernel, what a

Re: initrd and uImage

2008-08-08 Thread Robert Schwebel
On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 09:42:41AM -0700, Fundu wrote: > First off i have a ppc based board. > and i'm trying to load a kernel image with ramdisk rootfs. Why? You can also boot your root fs for example directly from a flash partition. > i have build the kernel. it spit uImage,zImage and vmlinux.g

initrd and uImage

2008-08-08 Thread Fundu
Hi, First off i have a ppc based board. and i'm trying to load a kernel image with ramdisk rootfs. i have build the kernel. it spit uImage,zImage and vmlinux.gz my question are. 1) what are all the different image types ? i know the uImage is just the kernel, what are the rest (zImage & vmlinux.