Re: Problem with booting linux using u-boot

[Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>]

<Dupas.External@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I've tried what you advised the problem is that I haven't managed to
> put this image in flash since it is not an elf file.

You can write normal binary files in flash, they don't need to be
ELF (see the platform's documentation).

> furthermore I had erased the prebuilt image of linux thinking that I
> would replace it with a more recent one but I haven't managed to do
> so.  Then to make things clean I have loaded the image of linux from
> another versatile and placed it in flash exactly the same way than
> it was before but milo still can't find the kernel! howcome?

How did you manage to get an ELF file from another Versatile?

I don't know milo's magic for searching the kernel on Versatile. You
could try to use U-Boot instead.

> What must be put in flash? .bin, .img raw elf .....I'm a bit upset

What are .bin, .img?

Take the arm/arch/boot/Image file (or a pre-built one), create a
uImage file with U-Boot's mkimage and write it to flash.

It's up to you how to write the file into flash. Either use the Boot
Monitor in semihosting mode or NFU (on the Versatile CD) or directly
use U-Boot to get an image from the network and write it to
flash. It's a bit OT for this group to discuss writing images into the
Versatile's flash. If you still don't manage, you could probably
contact ARM's support (but google a bit before since this was
discussed about a month ago on these lists).

-- 
Catalin


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