In message 20040921.151713.5279.260575@webmail08.lax.untd.com you wrote:
ramdisk_image.gz is missing a valid U-boot header.
ramdisk_image.gz was downloaded from the site you have recommended:
ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/LinuxPPC/usr/src/SELF/images/ppc_82xx
Yes, but it's still just a compressed ramdisk image, and not an U-Boot image.
What is the missing operation (which is not, by the way, in the 7.6 of your manual, which also -I just double-checked - still refers to downloading from ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/LinuxPPC/usr/src/SIMPLE-PPCBOOT-ramdisk - you may consider correcting it, Sir ...), which I have to perform (over ramdisk_image.gz downloaded from your "correct" site ?)?
Please let me know where you find this stale link. The manual page at http://www.denx.de/twiki/bin/view/DULG/LinuxRamdiskRoot looks OK to me.
To reiterate, I do not think this "missing" step is covered in 7.6 either.
No, this is not in 7.6. But did you read the README?
Could I kindly ask you to be more detailed in your answers - so I will not need to bother you yet again.
If I answer all your questions in complete detail, split into easily digestable chunks you will just follow the description without thinking. Tomorrow, you'll ask similar questions again. Instead I want to make you start thinking yourself. In thge long term this is much more efficient - for you and for me.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk