Booting problems

Booting problems

[David H. Lynch Jr.]

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    I am booting a compressed initramfs kernel.

    I have hit what appears to be a size issue. simply adding more data
to the initramfs source directory,
    or adding even a small amount of unused code to my  kernel causes it
to hang after relocation during boot.
    The point of failure varies with the size of the kernel image.

    I have tried blindly jiggering with the  CONFIG_ADVANCED_OPTIONS
setting with no noticable effect.
    The total zImage.elf size is just shy of 3Mb.

    Does anyone have an idea what I need to do to be able to load a
larger image ?

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Re: Booting problems

[Peter Korsgaard]

>>>>> "David" == David H Lynch <dhlii@dlasys.net> writes:

Hi,

David>     I have tried blindly jiggering with the
David> CONFIG_ADVANCED_OPTIONS setting with no noticable effect.  The
David> total zImage.elf size is just shy of 3Mb.

David>     Does anyone have an idea what I need to do to be able to
David> load a larger image ?

How big is your vmlinux? I guess you are running into the 4MB limit.

See the recent thread about it:
http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-embedded/2006-August/023977.html

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Bye, Peter Korsgaard