From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3EA823A1.7030905@mvista.com> Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 10:49:21 -0700 From: "Mark A. Greer" MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kent Borg Cc: Dan Malek , linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: boot/simple in ROM? References: <20030424123313.A8490@borg.org> <3EA81B3F.9080709@embeddededge.com> <20030424133222.B8490@borg.org> In-Reply-To: <20030424133222.B8490@borg.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Sender: owner-linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Kent Borg wrote: >On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 01:13:35PM -0400, Dan Malek wrote: > > >>The other really nice thing about these bootloaders, compressed >>kernels, and attached initrd, is you can boot the identical image >>from all "devices." For example, during development you can tftp >>load the image, get everything working, then place the exact same >>bits into a flash rom. Simply jump to the first location of the >>image and it will boot from flash. >> >> > >Yes, but disappointingly the ppc/boot/simple I am using (from 2.4 >devel) won't run from ROM. Is there a better boot loader I should be >using? > > You're a little sparse on info here but try lopping off the first 64KB of your zImage (or jump 0x10000 into the zImage that you have). Mark ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/