unable to uncompess kernel image

[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <8D4C69676E66D511A1CB00508BBBB1921BCEF9 at ranmx1.ran.harris.com> you wrote:
>
> I've successfully developed a kernel which mounts over nfs.
> Now I want to make a zImage.initrd. To do so, I've first made a ramdisk.image.gz
> and copied it to /arch/ppc/mbxboot.
> Then I made make zImage.initrd.

OK. This is the traditional way to do it, using the bootstrap  loader
code in the mbxboot directory.

> After that, I've used mkimage to encapsulate /arch/ppc/mbxboot/zvmlinux.initrd
> to boot it with ppcboot.

Wrong. It does not work this way with PPCBoot.

See the README file that comes with PPCBoot for a description what to
do.

Wolfgang Denk

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