I think you must be doing something wrong.

Probably...

Which exact commands did you use to put the image into the boot partition?

dd if=/tftpboot/uImage of=/dev/sda1 2234+1 records in 2234+1 records out 1144016 bytes transferred in 0.585176 seconds (1954995 bytes/sec)

A9M9750 # usb reset (Re)start USB... USB: scanning bus for devices... 2 USB Devices found A9M9750 # usb scan Scan for storage device: scanning bus for storage devices... Device 0: Vendor: USB 2.0 Prod.: Mobile Disk Rev: 2.00 Type: Removable Hard Disk Capacity: 125.0 MB = 0.1 GB (256000 x 512)

A9M9750 # usbboot 10000 0:1

Loading from USB device 0, partition 1: Name: usbda1 Type: U-Boot First Block: 32, # of blocks: 10208, Block Size: 512

** Bad Magic Number **

And with usb read it looks like:

A9M9750 # usb read 10000 20 8BB

USB read: device 0 block # 32, count 2235 ... ............................................................................................................... 2235 blocks read: OK A9M9750 # bootm ## Booting image at 00010000 ... Image Name: Linux-2.6.10-fs1 Created: 2005-02-02 13:23:01 UTC Image Type: ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed) Data Size: 1144056 Bytes = 1.1 MB Load Address: 00008000 Entry Point: 00008000 Verifying Checksum ... OK OK

Starting kernel ...

Regards, Jonas