Hi Wolfgang, Thank you for your reply & read inline below please.
Best regards, Mike On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 5:50 AM, Wolfgang Denk <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Mike, > > In message <[email protected]> you > wrote: >> >> You are correct, U-Boot does not load the RAMdisk image since the >> image is already stored in NOR flash memory. Sorry for my >> carelessness... >> Below is the kernel start log, Could you please take a look into it >> and give my any suggestions? > > That's difficult for me, given the fact that I don't know how your > kernel was modified and/or configured. I am using standard kernel of version 2.6.21.7. And only few changes to adapt the hardware board. > >> => setenv bootargs console=ttyS0,115200 root=/dev/ram0 ro mem=100M > > You might have to pass an address for the inital ramdisk as part of > the bootargs; I don't know how your kernel passes such parameters > between boot loader and kernel. And even then your kernel might > expect that the ramdisk image is in RAM, not in flash. As mentioned > before, patches have been posted here several times. Search the list > archive, please. > I tried to pass initrd=0xa0a00000,16M into the kernel command line, but kernel still reports "Initrd not found or empty"... btw: 0xa0a00000 is a memory address. my flash space is from BF000000 to BFFE0000 which is a 64MB NOR flash. Actually, I just want the kernel to use the ramdisk in memory as its rootfs. > Best regards, > > Wolfgang Denk > > -- > DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel > HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany > Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: [email protected] > "The more data I punch in this card, the lighter it becomes, and the > lower the mailing cost." > - Stan Kelly-Bootle, "The Devil's DP Dictionary" > _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list [email protected] http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
