Hello,

in message 1058522316.1188.104.camel@localhost.localdomain you wrote:

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What do you get when you run the "printenv" command?

this is what i get when i issue printenv

:>printenv 0A" $` $A .aB@ stdgut=seri`l stdin=serial stdout=serial stderr=serial

Environment size: 71/262140 bytes

As you can see, the environment contains only garbage. So it is not a big surprise that autoboot does not work as U-Boot cannot find a valid definition of the "bootdelay" environment variable.

My suspicion that your environment is misconfigured seems to be correct.

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Why do you reserve 512 kB for U-Boot? U-Boot is needs much less memory!

err .. i dunno why.. did i reserve that much? hmm where do i configure this. I hav just upgrade from ppcboot actually... and i am very new at this boot loader stuff.

All this is set in the board's config file. The relevant config variables are documented in the README file.

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Where are your environment variables stored? In flash? Embedded with the U-Boot image or separate?

environment variables?? i m really sorry, i m not sure what you are talkin about. Is it board.c? Everything , the u-boot, kernel and ramdisk is in flash.

I am talking about variables and configuration parameters that U-Boot stores in the "environment". The envrionment can be stored in flash, I2C or SPI EEPROM, NVRAM, etc.

Your environment is obviously misconfigured, which is the reason for your problems.

Thanks for your time in helping me out. I am sorry but I am new at this. Well everyone has to start learning from somewhere.

Maybe you find it useful to have a look at http://www.denx.de/re/DPLG.html

Although this does not answer your immediate questions, it might help you to understand the concept of environment variables and what they can be used for.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk