On 2018-02-11, Scott wrote: > On 2/1/2018 1:13 AM, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > Curious if I am overlooking a U-Boot option/parameter/command for > loading initrd. > > From the vendor-provided U-Boot prompt, I could not load initrd.gz into > memory without first wrapping with mkimage. After debian installation, > I found the same case when configuring U-Boot to use bootcmd. I ended > up wrapping initrd.img-4.9.0-4-armmp. I suspect his will be a problem > when updating kernel. Aptitude already shows a security update > available for kernel/image. Yes, if u-boot was not compiled with CONFIG_SUPPORT_RAW_INITRD, it will likely require wrapping with mkimage. Many vendor-supplied u-boot images do not have this feature enabled. live well, vagrant
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