From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Frank Agius Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 08:48:15 -0400 Subject: [U-Boot] Uboot and initramfs In-Reply-To: <5002ED77.6020704@o2.pl> References: <5002ED77.6020704@o2.pl> Message-ID: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de On 7/15/2012 12:19 PM, Wojtek wrote: > Hi, > > I'm struggling with the topic for long two days and I want to ask for help. > > I have a DNS-320 system with u-boot. I compiled kernel and it works > well, but I need initramfs. I prepared contents on this system (ARM) (no > need to cross-compile), then did: > > find . -print0 | cpio --null -ov --format=newc | gzip -9 > initramfs > mkimage -A arm -O linux -T ramdisk -C gzip -n "Some name" -d initramfs > initramfs.kwb > > flash_eraseall /dev/mtd2 > nandwrite -p /dev/mtd2 ./initramfs.kwb > > reboot > > Marvell_DNS320>> nand read.e 0xa00000 0x100000 0x200000 > > NAND read: device 0 offset 0x100000, size 0x200000 load addr .... =a00000 > > 2097152 bytes read: OK > Marvell_DNS320>> nand read.e 0xf00000 0x600000 0x500000 > > NAND read: device 0 offset 0x600000, size 0x500000 load addr .... =f00000 > > 5242880 bytes read: OK > Marvell_DNS320>> bootm 0xa00000 0xf00000 > ## Booting image at 00a00000 ... > Image Name: Linux-3.4.4 > Created: 2012-07-08 11:45:53 UTC > Image Type: ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed) > Data Size: 2039456 Bytes = 1.9 MB > Load Address: 00008000 > Entry Point: 00008000 > Verifying Checksum ... OK > OK > ## Loading Ramdisk Image at 0f00000 ... > Image Name: Initramfs 3.4.4 > Created: 2012-07-15 16:08:35 UTC > Image Type: ARM Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed) > Data Size: 4816677 Bytes = 4.6 MB > Load Address: 00000000 > Entry Point: 00000000 > Verifying Checksum ... OK > > Starting kernel ... > > And here it hangs. > > > If I skip passing initramfs system boots properly. > What is wrong? > > Cheers, > Wojtek In your mkimage command, try changing "-C gzip" to "-C none". frank