Re: [U-Boot-Users] Linux kernel ignoring bootargs

Timur Tabi wrote:

I'm trying to boot a Linux 2.6.17 kernel from U-Boot, and it appears that it's ignoring the bootargs variable in U-Boot.

Try clearing bootargs, and then setting it again.

I had a similar issue, and this fixed it. My assumption was that I'd got a control character in there that made it appear sane, when in fact it was not. A binary dump of the arguments area would probably confirm it.

Also you need to watch out for repeated environment variables, if something is defined twice, it'll pickup the first, but redefinition will affect the second. I saw this when updating U-Boot and picking up the default environment, i.e., a couple of things appeared to be defined twice ... I figured it was user-error :)

Cheers Dave