Hi All,

thanx all for ur kind help...the problem was neither due to Memory Mapping nor CRC check... I tried the same old routine method of debugging, which is the best... puts( ).. It was all due to the assignment statement in devices_init( ) in devices.c "gd->flags |= "..... which is declared using DECLARE_GLOBAL_DATA_PTR in asm/global_data.h

Well as of now i have commented that, and my board seems to boot fine... But while loading Linux....phew!!! Have a look below...

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:>tftpboot ARP broadcast 1 ARP broadcast 2 TFTP from server 192.168.6.200; our IP address is 192.168.6.221 Filename 'vmlinuz-2.4.4.n2'. Load address: 0x100000 Loading: ################################################################# ################################################################# # done Bytes transferred = 666865 (a2cf1 hex) :>bootm ## Booting image at 00100000 ... Image Name: Linux 2.4.4 (allfs) Image Type: PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed) Data Size: 666801 Bytes = 651.2 kB Load Address: 00000000 Entry Point: 00000000 Verifying Checksum ... OK Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK

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Now my system hangs.....Any guesses guys....????? Again, i have already started looking into to Kernel using grep and xargs......thanx to Jerry and Marius ... thanx again...

adios Sid.