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From: Jarod Wang <mail2jarod@163.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot-Users] How to boot zImage in Flash memory?
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 21:13:25 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BOEEKPEFAJCGBAHKKMAHEEDECAAA.mail2jarod@163.com> (raw)

Hi all,
I tried to migrate u-boot-1.1.3 on my Samsung S3C44B0X based evaluation board and my target was booting uClinux with U-Boot.
Several days ago I could see the serial port output and the user input prompt in minicom at last. 
Then I configured and compiled the uClinux-dist-20040408 on the Fedora Core 4 platform. As a result, I got an 826KB zImage binary file(As far as I know, the zImage consists of a Linux kernel image and a ramdisk image.)  in the uClinux-dist/images/ directory. I downloaded it into the Flash memory(Intel 28F320C3B) using a flash programmer application on the Windows XP platform. But I've tried to boot the zImage using "bootm" commands several times but all failed. U-Boot always prompted "Bad Magic Number" error. So I wonder how to boot zImage in Flash memory in my case.
Besides, I still have some questions about the migration. For instance, I don't know the meaning of "CONFIG_BOOTFILE"  when I referred to include/configs/B2.h. And I don't know how to configure my "CONFIG_BOOTARGS" correctly. And the distinction between "CONFIG_BOOTARGS" and "Environment Variables" since I am not familiar with the booting of Linux.
Sorry for my poor English and any advice would be appreciated.

Regards,
Jarod Wang

             reply	other threads:[~2005-08-31 13:13 UTC|newest]

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2005-08-31 13:13 Jarod Wang [this message]
2005-08-31 13:59 ` [U-Boot-Users] How to boot zImage in Flash memory? Ladislav Michl

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