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<P><FONT COLOR="#000080" SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">Hi Guys,</FONT>
<BR><FONT COLOR="#000080" SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">I just realized what I did wrong ;</FONT>
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<P><FONT COLOR="#000080" SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">When making the ramdisk ;</FONT>
<BR><FONT COLOR="#000080" SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">:</FONT>
<BR><FONT COLOR="#000080" SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">:</FONT>
<BR><FONT COLOR="#000080" SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">dd if=/dev/zero of=ramdisk bs=1k count=500000</FONT>
<BR><FONT COLOR="#000080" SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">:</FONT>
<BR><FONT COLOR="#000080" SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">:</FONT>
<BR><FONT COLOR="#000080" SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">I should use count 50000 instead of 500000.</FONT>
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<P><FONT COLOR="#000080" SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">:-))</FONT>
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<P><FONT COLOR="#000080" SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">Thx // M</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Tahoma">_____________________________________________ </FONT>
<BR><B><FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Tahoma">From: </FONT></B> <FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Tahoma">Matias Sundman (AS/EAB) </FONT>
<BR><B><FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Tahoma">Sent: </FONT></B> <FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Tahoma">den 21 mars 2007 14:08</FONT>
<BR><B><FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Tahoma">To: </FONT></B> <FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Tahoma">'linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org'</FONT>
<BR><B><FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Tahoma">Subject: </FONT></B> <FONT SIZE=1 FACE="Tahoma">Ramdisk : Linux 2.6 : U-boot :: RAMDISK: incomplete write (-28 != 32768) 52428800</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">Hello,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">I am trying to get a U-boot multi-image to function properly for my custom board.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">I've had it working with the 2.4 kernel but having problems with 2.6.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">Here is what I get;</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS"> [U-boot] Platform Initialized ,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS"> handing over control to [Linux]</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">Linux version 2.6.14.7 (matias@schizo) (gcc version 3.4.4 ) #11 Wed Mar 21 13:41:22 CET 2007</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">Ericsson, MXB4 port</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">Using IDMA1 for MPC8260 device erratum PCI 9 workaround</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">SIUMCR is value = 5200000</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">arch/ppc/syslib/m82xx_pci.c: The PCI bus is 50 Mhz.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">Waiting 0.5 seconds after deasserting RST...</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">Built 1 zonelists</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">Kernel command line: mem=0x0F000000 root=/dev/ram ip=$ipaddr:$serverip:$gatewayi</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">p:$netmask:$hostname:eth0:off console=ttyCPM0,115200</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">PID hash table entries: 1024 (order: 10, 16384 bytes)</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">Warning: real time clock seems stuck!</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">Console: colour dummy device 80x25</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">Memory: 216576k available (1864k kernel code, 580k data, 108k init, 0k highmem)</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">Capability LSM initialized</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">Mount-cache hash table entries: 512</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (no cpio magic); looks like an initrd</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">softlockup thread 0 started up.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">Freeing initrd memory: 24153k freed</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">NET: Registered protocol family 16</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">PCI: Probing PCI hardware</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 0 of device 0000:00:00.0</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 1 of device 0000:00:00.0</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 0 of device 0000:00:0e.0</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 0 of device 0000:00:0f.0</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 0 of device 0000:00:10.0</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">Registering GDB sysrq handler</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">JFFS2 version 2.2. (NAND) (C) 2001-2003 Red Hat, Inc.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">Initializing Cryptographic API</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">Serial: CPM driver $Revision: 0.01 $</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">ttyCPM0 at MMIO map 0xf0011a00 mem 0x0 (irq = 40) is a CPM UART</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">ttyCPM1 at MMIO map 0xf0011a20 mem 0x0 (irq = 41) is a CPM UART</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">ttyCPM2 at MMIO map 0xf0011a40 mem 0x0 (irq = 42) is a CPM UART</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">ttyCPM3 at MMIO map 0xf0011a60 mem 0x0 (irq = 43) is a CPM UART</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">io scheduler noop registered</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">io scheduler anticipatory registered</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">io scheduler deadline registered</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">io scheduler cfq registered</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">RAMDISK driver initialized: 1 RAM disks of 51200K size 1024 blocksize</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">loop: loaded (max 8 devices)</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">physmap flash device: 2000000 at fe000000</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">phys_mapped_flash: Found 1 x16 devices at 0x0 in 16-bit bank</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS"> Amd/Fujitsu Extended Query Table at 0x0040</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">phys_mapped_flash: CFI does not contain boot bank location. Assuming top.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">number of CFI chips: 1</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">cfi_cmdset_0002: Disabling erase-suspend-program due to code brokenness.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">cmdlinepart partition parsing not available</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">RedBoot partition parsing not available</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">mtd: Giving out device 0 to phys_mapped_flash</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">i2c /dev entries driver</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">eth0: FCC ENET Version 0.3, 00:01:ec:b4:07:e6</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">eth0: Phy @ 0x0, type XXB-BCM (0x00406322)</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">eth1: FCC ENET Version 0.3, 00:01:ec:f4:07:e6</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">eth1: Phy @ 0x1, type XXB-BCM (0x00406322)</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">eth2: FCC ENET Version 0.3, 00:01:ec:b4:07:e6</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">eth2: Phy @ 0x2, type XXB-BCM (0x00406322)</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">NET: Registered protocol family 2</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">IP route cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">TCP established hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">TCP bind hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 8192)</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">TCP reno registered</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">TCP bic registered</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">NET: Registered protocol family 1</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">NET: Registered protocol family 17</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">802.1Q VLAN Support v1.8 Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com></FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">All bugs added by David S. Miller <davem@redhat.com></FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">eth0: config: auto-negotiation on, 100FDX, 100HDX, 10FDX, 10HDX.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">IP-Config: Unable to set interface netmask (-22).</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">RAMDISK: incomplete write (-28 != 32768) 52428800</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">Freeing unused kernel memory: 108k init</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">attempt to access beyond end of device</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">ram0: rw=0, want=622600, limit=102400</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">EXT2-fs error (device ram0): ext2_get_inode: unable to read inode block - inode=</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">78129, block=311299</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">Warning: unable to open an initial console.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">attempt to access beyond end of device</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">ram0: rw=0, want=688136, limit=102400</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">EXT2-fs error (device ram0): ext2_get_inode: unable to read inode block - inode=</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">86353, block=344067</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">attempt to access beyond end of device</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">ram0: rw=0, want=311304, limit=102400</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">EXT2-fs error (device ram0): ext2_get_inode: unable to read inode block - inode=</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">39065, block=155651</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">attempt to access beyond end of device</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">ram0: rw=0, want=589832, limit=102400</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">EXT2-fs error (device ram0): ext2_get_inode: unable to read inode block - inode=</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">74017, block=294915</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS"> <0>Rebooting in 180 seconds.. </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">This is the way I build the Multi-Image;</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">#!/bin/bash</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">clear</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">echo 'Producing Multi Image File'</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">echo 'You are root RIGHT?!'</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">dd if=/dev/zero of=ramdisk bs=1k count=500000</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">mke2fs -F -v -m0 ramdisk</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">mount -o loop ramdisk /mnt/initrd2/</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">cp -a /tftpboot/rootfs_mxb4_1/* /mnt/initrd2/</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">umount /mnt/initrd2</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">gzip -9 ramdisk</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">echo 'Name of the MultiImage: '</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">read name</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">mkimage -n $name -A ppc -O linux -T multi -C gzip -d vmlinux.gz:ramdisk.gz $name</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">echo 'Well, we are kinda done'</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">I configured the Kernel to have 1 ramdisk with the size of 50M , however I tried various combinations</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">of 16 Ramdisk and 4M and 8M .. nothing seems to work for me today ...</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">Happy for any tips to point me in the right direction.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Comic Sans MS">Cheers // Matias</FONT>
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