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Subject: [ts-7000] Re: yaffs tragedy: no more eraased blocks
From: "j.chitte" <>
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2009 08:40:12 -0000
--- In  "j.chitte" <> wrote:
>
> --- In  Jason Stahls <jason@> wrote:
> >
> > j.chitte wrote:
> > > However , I can not find out how to boot vmlinux.bin that is supplied 
> > > with flash_eraseall_ignoreBB. It seems that I need both the tool and the 
> > > kernel.
> > >
> > > Can anyone enlighten me ?
> >
> > I'd assume the kernel will boot the TS-Linux image, if so just setup a
> > nfs-root with the ts-linux image extracted on it and boot over NFS.
> >
> > --
> > Jason Stahls
> >
> thanks for the reply.
>
> That was what I assumed as well and I have a suitable nfs mount available. My 
> problem was actually getting vmlinux.bin to boot at all.
>
> I tried loading it to redboot but I found no information of start address, 
> entry point etc. I had a couple of guesses that just locked up straight after 
> the redboot exec command.
>
> I could find no information on TS site or in their "manual"  (or elsewhere) 
> as to EXACTLY what to do with a kernel in that form.
>
> So my question was quite literally how to boot vmlinux.bin
>
> thanks
>

To be more precise, this is what I expected to work and it locked up:


RedBoot> fis list
Name              FLASH addr  Mem addr    Length      Entry point
(reserved)        0x60000000  0x60000000  0x07D20000  0x00000000
RedBoot           0x67D20000  0x67D20000  0x00040000  0x00000000
zImage            0x67D80000  0x00218000  0x000C0000  0x00218000
FIS directory     0x67FE0000  0x67FE0000  0x00003000  0x00000000
RedBoot config    0x67FFF000  0x67FFF000  0x00001000  0x00000000
RedBoot>  load -v -r -b 0x218000 -h 192.168.1.3 -m http /vmlinux.bin
\
Raw file loaded 0x00218000-0x00372333, assumed entry at 0x00218000
RedBoot> exec -c "console=ttyAM0,115200 ip=192.168.1.50 root=/dev/nfs 
nfsroot=192.168.1.3:/mnt/nfs"
Using base address 0x00218000 and length 0x00   @
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