From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: "somshekar chandrashekar kadam" Cc: linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org, "Lin, Nan-Hung" Subject: Re: ramdisk problem From: Wolfgang Denk Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 In-reply-to: Your message of "13 Jun 2002 13:43:34 -0000." <20020613134334.24727.qmail@webmail21.rediffmail.com> Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 15:54:40 +0200 Message-Id: <20020613135445.2C07E102F8@denx.denx.de> Sender: owner-linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: In message <20020613134334.24727.qmail@webmail21.rediffmail.com> you wrote: > > after compiling zImage i give command make zImage.initrd > so that r4,r5 contain initrd offset and size > i am getting initrd offset as 9099b > > initrd_load routine is called ,he is checking at this loaction for > start of ramdisk image ,he is not getting it, so he says couldnt > find valid ramdisk image > > what can be the problem How do you load the image? Linux uses a special segment in the ELF file for the initrd image; maybe your bot loader does not understand this, and drops it? Wolfgang Denk -- Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtime Systems, Embedded Linux Phone: (+49)-8142-4596-87 Fax: (+49)-8142-4596-88 Email: wd@denx.de "Have you lived in this village all your life?" "No, not yet." ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/