[PLUG] Ramdisk not working on hawkboard

[Abhijit Bhopatkar]

On Friday 21 January 2011 02:06 PM, Giriprasad Deviprasad wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am creating ram disk as in : http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/Creating_a_Root_File_System_for_Linux_on_OMAP35x
>
> I compiled the linux-omap kernel using (http://hawkboard.googlecode.com/files/linux-omapl1_ver1.tar.bz2), with the kernel parameters as described in the first link as above:
> make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-none-linux-gnueabi- uImage_v2
>
> cp arch/arm/boot/Image_v2 /tftpboot/uImage_v2
>
> Then I did:
> setenv bootargs mem=88M ip=dhcp console=ttyS0,115200n8 root=/dev/ram0 rw initrd=0xc1180000,16M ramdisk_size=16384
> saveenv
> tftp c0000000 uImage_v2
> tftp c1180000 rd-ext2.bin
> bootm c0000000
>
Are you sure c000000 lies within ram address??

> It errors:
> hawkboard.org>  bootm c0000000          
> AIS U-BootLoader is already flashed
> Wrong Image Format for bootm command
> ERROR: can't get kernel image!
>
> any clues why?
>