Dear Gerald,
in message A7C98E37A5710946908EEC7C796A7442012F2E@mainserver.reaonix.com you wrote:
Thanks for your response. Since is not a u-boot problem I am going to post this on the kernel list.
Don't ignore Stefan's hint.
It seems initramfs doesn't like when the ocotea board as more then 512K of memory.
He wrote:
IIRC you have to configure your kernel differently when you are using more than 768MBytes (setup highmem...).
BTW: please read http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html
This is probably not a bug, but a configuration issue. Actually the problem you've seen is caused by the standard configuration of Linux on (32 bit) PowerPC systems; Normally you can use only use 0x30000000 (768MB) RAM (lowmem); if you need more you have to change your kernel configuration, including shifting the kernel start address.
On your system, the following config options might fix the problem:
CONFIG_ADVANCED_OPTIONS=y CONFIG_LOWMEM_SIZE_BOOL=y CONFIG_LOWMEM_SIZE=0x40000000 CONFIG_KERNEL_START_BOOL=y CONFIG_KERNEL_START=0xa0000000 # CONFIG_CONSISTENT_START_BOOL is not set # CONFIG_CONSISTENT_SIZE_BOOL is not set # CONFIG_BOOT_LOAD_BOOL is not set
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk