In message loom.20050718T195232-439@post.gmane.org you wrote:
I am currently trying to boot an kernel with inital ramdisk using u-boot on an EP885C, but I am running into the following problem when I try to boot the kernel:
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RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 Freeing initrd memory: 466k freed Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:00
So it found the ramdisk, but could not mount the filesystem. Assuming this is an ext2 file system - did you enable ext2 support in your kernel configuration?
I would think that this is purely a kernel problem; however, it did not crop up
It is.
In order to get the kernel to run, I had to copy the ppcboot.h bd_t struct into my linux port and change the IMAP_ADDR to get the kernel to boot. I am thinking
Wrong approach. Don't copy and duplicate code. Just #include ppcboot.h - this is what it was made for.
that somehow the bd_t struct changes could make the it impossible to use /dev/ram0 correctly. Other than that, I am stumped. Any help would be greatly
The ramdisk was recognized correctly. It's the content that did not match.
U-Boot has nothing to do with that.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk