Re: APEX, NSLU2, skip stuff

[Marc Singer <elf@buici.com>]

On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 12:44:53AM +0200, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> * Marc Singer <elf@buici.com> [2006-08-13 15:28]:
> > Are you sure that will work?  Don't you have to append all of the
> > initramfs to the kernel?
> 
> No, you don't.  It can be a separate file and the kernel will check
> whether it looks like an initrd or an initramfs during boot.
> 
> > Doesn't that mean that there will be one large kernel partition and
> > not ramdisk partition?
> 
> Nope.
> 
> # copy -s fis://kernel@16 0x00008000
> 1179616 bytes transferred
> # copy -s fis://ramdisk@16 0x01000000
> 6553584 bytes transferred
> ...
> Linux version 2.6.17-2-ixp4xx (Debian 2.6.17-6)...
> ...
> Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,115200
> ...
> checking if image is initramfs... it is
> ...
> Freeing init memory: 88K
> Starting system log daemon: syslogd, klogd.
> Entering low memory mode, please wait ...

The latest test.bin fails to boot.

+Ethernet eth0: MAC address 00:0f:66:7b:f7:b0
IP: 192.168.0.1/255.255.255.0, Gateway: 192.168.0.1
Default server: 0.0.0.0, DNS server IP: 0.0.0.0

RedBoot(tm) bootstrap and debug environment [ROMRAM]
Red Hat certified release, version 1.92 - built 15:16:07, Feb  3 2004

Platform: IXDP425 Development Platform (XScale) 
Copyright (C) 2000, 2001, 2002, Red Hat, Inc.

RAM: 0x00000000-0x02000000, 0x000723a0-0x01ff3000 available
FLASH: 0x50000000 - 0x50800000, 64 blocks of 0x00020000 bytes each.
== Executing boot script in 2.000 seconds - enter ^C to abort
RedBoot> boot;exec 0x01d00000
not have eRcOmM 
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