ramdisk problem

[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <20020613134334.24727.qmail at webmail21.rediffmail.com> you wrote:
>
> after compiling zImage i give command make zImage.initrd
> so that r4,r5 contain initrd offset and size
> i am getting initrd offset as 9099b
>
> initrd_load routine is called ,he is checking at this loaction for
> start of ramdisk image ,he is not getting it, so he says couldnt
> find valid ramdisk image
>
> what can be the problem

How do you load the image? Linux uses a special segment  in  the  ELF
file  for the initrd image; maybe your bot loader does not understand
this, and drops it?

Wolfgang Denk

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