[ECOS] Help with booting Linux off my Redboot prompt

[Nickolay]

Krishna Ganugapati wrote:

> I have successfully built redboot for my IXP425 - can load redboot 
> image store it in flash, npe's work fine and I can successfully tftp 
> images down to my board from by RedHat9 Linux box.
>
> I've built Linux kernels and a rootfs.
>
> My compressed Linux kernel is zImage
>
> and  my compressed rootfs is rootfs.gz
>
> I execute the following commands at my Redboot console
>
> a) load -r -v -b 0x00800000 rootfs.gz  ; load the rootfs.gz image @ 
> 0x0800000
>
> b) load -r -v -v 0x01600000 zImage  ;  load the compressed kernel 
> zImage @ 0x01600000
>
> c) exec
>
> The resulting output is
> Using base address 0x01600000 and length 0x000b73c0 (which is the 
> correct size of the image)
>
> However following that, I get nothing....
>
> Any ideas how I can debug further... or should I be taking this to 
> another alias...
>
>
> Thanks!
>
> Krishna

Try explicitly indicate what you want load from.
exec -b 0x01600000 -l 0 0x01600000



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