From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wolfgang Denk Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2011 11:09:03 +0100 Subject: [U-Boot] having trouble booting a simple kernel on a TQM860 board In-Reply-To: References: <4ED95F4A.70003@freescale.com> Message-ID: <20111205100903.2E06413BE0E6@gemini.denx.de> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Dear Robert, In message you wrote: > > i believe i've solved this issue, at least. i downloaded ELDK 4.2 > and installed the ppc_8xx- toolchain. with that, i managed to compile > u-boot 2010.12 and flashed it to my TQM860, reset and, lo and behold, > i have a 2010.12 u-boot. so my u-boot issue seems to be resolved. You update U-Boot, but to a version 4 releases old. Why not to current code? > which generated a uImage file. but as i understand it, i want a > cuImage-format file as i used with my lite5200, so i edited the file No. Now you don't need a cuImage nay more. Just use the DT as I showed you in the builkd and boot log I sent before. > look reasonable? so i download to the board to address 200000, ... > but at this point, any attempt to "bootm 200000" gives me (as before): ... > immediately followed by a long line of diamonds with question marks You may want to read the FAQ: http://www.denx.de/wiki/view/DULG/LinuxUncompressingError Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: wd at denx.de "It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the wa- terline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top." - Hunter S. Thompson