RE: booting from NOR flash using initrd

2007-11-16 Thread john oliver
dirk behme wrote: To see if its your kernel config or your ramdisk, can you try the ramdisk in attachment? You have to change config to 8M for this (i.e. CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE = 8192 and initrd=...,8M) Its an empty 8M ramdisk. The only thing in it is /dev/ram0, so kernel should

Re: booting from NOR flash using initrd

2007-11-16 Thread Dirk Behme
john oliver wrote: I changed /dev/ram0 to read brw-rw 1 root disk 1, 0 ... The uncompressed ramdisk is way under 6M - it's 2.8M Not sure, but to be on the safe side, your uncompressed ramdisk should be really 6M. I changed CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE to 6144 I removed

booting from NOR flash using initrd

2007-11-15 Thread john oliver
Hi, I'm also having problems with the initrd of booting form NOR. I have checked the mail list archives and it seems other people have had the same problem, but I have found no real solution. I'm getting .. RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS:

Re: booting from NOR flash using initrd

2007-11-15 Thread Dirk Behme
Some things you could check: john oliver wrote: My kernel .config includes .. CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_COUNT=1 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE=32768 In boot args you have 6M, so try to set 6144 here as well. My boot args line is bootargs=console=ttyS0,115200n8 root=/dev/ram0

RE: booting from NOR flash using initrd

2007-11-15 Thread john oliver
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 17:46:44 +0100 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: davinci-linux-open-source@linux.davincidsp.com Subject: Re: booting from NOR flash using initrd ___ Davinci-linux-open-source mailing list Davinci-linux-open

Using initrd

2006-12-13 Thread meher baba
Hi, I am new to Linux and I want to use the initrd feature of the kernel to load the basic file system. Can some one point to me on how to make a initrd image and how to load it using U-boot? Thanks and Best Regards, Meher ___

Re: Using initrd

2006-12-13 Thread Andrew Armstrong
Guys, I would like to tag something alond to this request, I myself am in the position of having a working self-contained NAND setup (boot, kernel and filesys) and a step-by-step procedure, however, am having difficulty doing the same in NOR. I have the UBOOT and Kernel running as it should, but

Re: Using initrd

2006-12-13 Thread meher baba
-- Message: 3 Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 10:59:33 -0600 From: meher baba [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Using initrd To: davinci-linux-open-source@linux.davincidsp.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Hi, I am new to Linux

Re: Using initrd

2006-12-13 Thread meher baba
more useful. Best regards, Loc From: meher baba [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 2:37 PM To: Truong, Loc Cc: davinci-linux-open-source@linux.davincidsp.com Subject: Re: Using initrd Loc, Thanks for the information

Re: Using initrd

2006-12-13 Thread meher baba
] Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 2:37 PM To: Truong, Loc Cc: davinci-linux-open-source@linux.davincidsp.com Subject: Re: Using initrd Loc, Thanks for the information. This definetly should get me going. Regards, Meher On 12/13/06, Truong, Loc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

RE: Using initrd

2006-12-13 Thread Truong, Loc
. Thanks for the feedback. Best regards, Loc -Original Message- From: meher baba [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 5:53 PM To: Truong, Loc Cc: davinci-linux-open-source@linux.davincidsp.com Subject: Re: Using initrd Hi Loc, I am able to boot the kernel