How to load a linux kernel under vxworks bootloader (PPC860 board)

Frank frannk_m1 at yahoo.com
Thu Jul 28 14:28:40 EST 2005



--- FCG WANG Baohua <Baohua.WANG at alcatel-sbell.com.cn> wrote:

> Dear All:
>   I want to boot a linux 2.4.25 kernel under vxworks
> bootloader. When I using flat mode(0x200000 -->  0x10000)
> kernel  uncompressed ELF format ( vmlinux ),
>  and download it using TFTP of vxworks, it print the "starting
> at 0x1000 ...." and  freeze.  No input or output on serial
> port.
>  The version of vxworks is 5.3.1. 
>  can you give me some detail advice or give me a tool to slove
> it? thanks !

Do what I did:
Replace the vxWorks rom with you u-boot and you can boot Linux
or vxWorks with the same bootloader.

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