[U-Boot-Users] Problems loading ramdisk

Wolfgang Denk
2006-06-09T22:51:08Z

In message <20060609221556.35601.qmail@web37110.mail.mud.yahoo.com> you wrote:
>
> I have a very simple and somewhat embarassing question
> regarding u-boot and loading a ramdisk. I am trying to
...
> bootm 50040000 50180000
...
## Loading Ramdisk Image at 50180000 ...
^^^^^^^^

The bootm command will pass the address of the ramdisk to the Linux
kernel using the appropriate ATAGS for this. It also passes the
correct memory size to use.

> Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,115200
> root=/dev/ram0 initrd=0x00800000,8M me
^^^^^^^^
> m=64M at 0x00000000 hdc=noprobe hdd=noprobe

...thus you should not pass any initrd= and mem= options on the
commandline unless you know *exactly* what you are doing.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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