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[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <EF9B29C78F41FA488927FCBC7750AF0E011DA5C5 at hyd-mdp-msg.wipro.com> you wrote:
> 
> Today somehow after removing many options I build the kernel and able to
> succeed till the VFS: "Mounted root (cramfs filesystem) readonly." But
> then I am seeming "kernel panic". Actually what option has to be given
> for init. We have given init=/bin/sh but no luck.

You have to provide a working root filesystem in the first place.

> One more observation is that the U-boot bootargs are overwriting the
> Kernel boot arguments given at the time of build. Even though using

This is normal. If you use U-boot  there  is  no  need  to  have  any
pre-compiled  boot arguments; more: there is no need to use the whole
bootstrap loader which supplied these precompiled bootargs.

> setenv I removed the bootargs but still the kernel arguments given at
> the time of build using devrocket are not still active.

Just define the required bootargs in U-Boot.

> VFS: Mounted root (cramfs filesystem) readonly.
> Mounted devfs on /dev
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 60k init
> Warning: unable to open an initial console.
> Error -3 while decompressing!

Do not ignore this error. How big is your cramfs iage? How  much  RAM
do you have?

> 0015fd20(1928974736)->00141000(4096)

Is there any chance that you built your cramfs image on a x08 (or any
other little-endian) system and forgot  to  give  the  "-r"  (reverse
endian-ness of filesystem) option to mkcramfs??

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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