From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: "Walser, Martin" Cc: linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: unable to uncompess kernel image From: Wolfgang Denk Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 05 Feb 2002 09:56:34 EST." <8D4C69676E66D511A1CB00508BBBB1921BCEF9@ranmx1.ran.harris.com> Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002 17:00:04 +0100 Message-Id: <20020205160009.43BAC116B8@denx.denx.de> Sender: owner-linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: 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 -- Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtime Systems, Embedded Linux Phone: (+49)-8142-4596-87 Fax: (+49)-8142-4596-88 Email: wd@denx.de I used to be indecisive, now I'm not sure. ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/