ADS860 - unable to load kernel- Bad magic number
Bob Beck
beck at assurtech.com
Fri Feb 27 09:22:12 EST 2004
On Sat, 2004-02-28 at 06:32, Marius Groeger wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Feb 2004, Bob Beck wrote:
>
> > What is the difference between vmlinux and zImage.embedded ?
>
> vmlinux is the plain kernel ELF image. You can use it to analyse the kernel
> code or symbols, but you cannot boot it as-is.
>
> zImage.embedded is the compressed kernel image plus some glue code used as a
> bridge between the firmware and the kernel.
>
On my proprietary board (PPC 603). I do not have access to flash
so I am loading vmlinux into RAM and jumping to 0x10000. It is
running into problems in mmu_off.
Should I be loading zImage.embedded instead ?
Bob
I can see
> Regards,
> Marius
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