From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
To: "Walser, Martin" <mwalser@harris.com>
Cc: linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: unable to uncompess kernel image
Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002 17:00:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020205160009.43BAC116B8@denx.denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 05 Feb 2002 09:56:34 EST." <8D4C69676E66D511A1CB00508BBBB1921BCEF9@ranmx1.ran.harris.com>
In message <8D4C69676E66D511A1CB00508BBBB1921BCEF9@ranmx1.ran.harris.com> you wrote:
>
> I've successfully developed a kernel which mounts over nfs.
> Now I want to make a zImage.initrd. To do so, I've first made a ramdisk.image.gz
> and copied it to /arch/ppc/mbxboot.
> Then I made make zImage.initrd.
OK. This is the traditional way to do it, using the bootstrap loader
code in the mbxboot directory.
> After that, I've used mkimage to encapsulate /arch/ppc/mbxboot/zvmlinux.initrd
> to boot it with ppcboot.
Wrong. It does not work this way with PPCBoot.
See the README file that comes with PPCBoot for a description what to
do.
Wolfgang Denk
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-02-05 16:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-05 14:56 unable to uncompess kernel image Walser, Martin
2002-02-05 15:52 ` Alex Zeffertt
2002-02-05 16:58 ` Wolfgang Denk
2002-02-05 16:00 ` Wolfgang Denk [this message]
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