I was able to find the zimage file that was made and that works in
the flash. I would like to still try to get reboot to load the linux
kernel from the compact flash.
Art
--- In "Art" <> wrote:
>
> 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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