17 Sep
2008
17 Sep
'08
8:46 p.m.
Dear cjjoy1980,
In message 19531737.post@talk.nabble.com you wrote:
I am trying to boot my board with initramfs file system. After loading the kernel image and initramfs onto uboot, executing bootm command gave me errors of "bad magic number". Then I tried to append header information using mkimage, here's what I executed:
...
- Where am I going wrong. Can I not boot using Initramfs, or should I
create Ramdisk image only for booting the board.
Initramfs != ramdisk.
- If I need to create ramdisk using genext2fs is there any size
restriction, that the file size should be less than 8 MB?
No.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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