Unable to boot linux on Xilinx ML403 board

Grant Likely grant.likely at secretlab.ca
Wed Sep 27 01:56:06 EST 2006


On 9/26/06, Mohan Krishna T <tmk at cmcltd.com> wrote:
> The zImage.initrd.elf is of size 3.4MB. I am getting hanged only when I am
> using DMA for Ethernet. Booting is going fine when I am using FIFO Mode.

You may be hitting the 4MB upper limit for zImages.  I had the same
problem with slightly smaller images, and it would hang at (seemingly)
random places everytime I changed something.  Making the image smaller
made the problem go away.

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