I have a compiled the kernel succesfully and was able to get the
debian sarge to boot. I used the image off the embedded arm
website. The kernel is too big for the flash. The only way I have
been able to get this to work is through xmodem download. This takes
a long time to load the kernel before the exec command. My first
choice would be to load the kernel from the compact flash that I have
the debian root on. I have that as a ext2 file system. but when I
used the disk method to load the kernel I get an error message of
Unsupported File System.
load -m disk hda1:vmlinux.bin
I was able to get http to download a kernel but only from the
embedded arm server. I am still unable to get this to work localy
from another computer.
I have also been trying to compress the kernel so that it would fit
on the internal flash but when I run "make zImage" I get nothing and
I don't know how to compress a kernel by hand. I can gzip a kernel
but would that be loaded correctly? Or do I need to compress the
kernel in a special format? I know that in the days of dos pkzip
used to have a way of compressing an excutable such that it would run
and extract in memory and run as usual.
If anyone has any ideas on how I might get around this I would
appreciate it.
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