Hi, I just got a bcm1250a board, it also uses the CFE as the bootloader, I compiled a compressed vmlinuz-2.6.34 for it and boot with the following command, it works well: CFE> setenv bootargs root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=$nfs_server_ip:/path/to/nfs_root_fs ip=dhcp CFE> ifconfig -auto eth0 CFE> boot -elf $tftp_server_ip:/path/to/vmlinuz With -elf, the boot command of CFE can parse the vmlinuz and boot it normally. I think you have used the wrong options of the boot command. Regards, -- Studying engineer. Wu Zhangjin Lanzhou University http://www.lzu.edu.cn Distributed & Embedded System Lab http://dslab.lzu.edu.cn School of Information Science and Engeneering http://xxxy.lzu.edu.cn wuzhangjin@xxxxxxxxx http://falcon.oss.lzu.edu.cn Address:Tianshui South Road 222,Lanzhou,P.R.China Zip Code:730000 Tel:+86-931-8912025