hi Denk, i use kernel provided bootloader to load image, i am using binary form of zImage i didnt get u denk ,i dont know abt this elf what u have said ,i am not sure abt it ,i will check it On Thu, 13 Jun 2002 Wolfgang Denk wrote : >In message <20020613134334.24727.qmail@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 > >-- >Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtime Systems, Embedded >Linux >Phone: (+49)-8142-4596-87 Fax: (+49)-8142-4596-88 Email: >wd@denx.de >"Have you lived in this village all your life?" "No, not >yet." ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/