[U-Boot] booting os 'Unknown OS' (1) is not supported

Alexander Khryukin
2014-01-17T16:17:48Z

>Can you do an 'mkimage -l <image>

[fedya at discordy linux-linaro-tracking]$ mkimage -l arch/arm/boot/uImage
Image Name: Linux-3.13.0-rc8
Created: Fri Jan 17 15:47:36 2014
Image Type: ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
Data Size: 4737032 Bytes = 4626.01 kB = 4.52 MB
Load Address: 40008000
Entry Point: 40008000

source code: https://github.com/fedya/u-boot-yse5250

2014/1/17 Detlev Zundel <dzu@denx.de>

> Hi Alexander,
>
> [...]
>
> > *ERROR: booting os 'Unknown OS' (1) is not supported*
>
> Hm, very strange. Looking up the code, the '1' is the image type
> contained in the uImage header. It is defined to be OpenBSD in
> include/image.h and if your U-Boot doesn't have support for that, you
> will get that message. This however doesn't make sense to have an
> uImage with this type.
>
> Can you do an 'mkimage -l <image>' on your development host to check the
> contents of the header? If this looks good, then somehow the image
> seems to be overwritten before trying to boot, but I don't see where.
>
> Cheers
> Detlev
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