[Avila] Redboot on Avila Platform

[devel]

Try changing your console device from null to /dev/ttyS0 (COM1) or 
/dev/ttyS1 (COM2). The output isn't going anywhere useful once you boot the 
kernel and OS. This will send the output to a COM/serial port.

Travis

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phaneendra Piratla" <ppiratla at globetelwireless.com>
To: "Avila" <avila at lists.unixstudios.net>
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 4:41 PM
Subject: [Avila] Redboot on Avila Platform
Subject: [Avila] > Hello,
> I have a custom binary file that contains zImage and root file system as
> one single binary file.
>
> Typically we were loading a ramdisk.gz and a zImage for the same board.
>
> I was using the following at the Redboot prompt:
>
> Redboot>load -r -v -b 0x00800000 ramdisk.gz
> Redboot>load -r -v -b 0x01800000 zImage
> Redboot>exec 0x01800000
>
> and the kernel loads after this.
>
> I was learnt that the magic number 0x0180000 came because of the size of
> the ramdisk is 16MB and hence the zImage is loaded at the end of
> 0x00800000 + 16MB = 0x01800000.
>
> I am trying to load the current binary file onto GW 2348 board. This
> file contains both the zImage and RFS as one single .bin file. I have no
> idea how big is the file system as we were given only the binary file
> and no separate RFS file was given to us in the package.
>
> I tried the following at the Redboot:
>
> Redboot>load -r -v -b 0x00800000 test.bin
>
>
> I get the following:
> Raw file loaded 0x00800000-0x0177ffff, assumed entry at 0x00800000
>
> After this I execute the following at the Redboot prompt:
>
> RedBoot> exec 0x00800000 -c "console=null,115200 root=/dev/mtdblock/2
> rootfstype=jffs2 rw"
> Using base address 0x00800000 and length 0x00f80000
>
>
> My redboot just hangs there without displaying anything.
>
> Can anybody shed some light on this?
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
>
>
>
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