On Thursday 09 Dec 2010 12:34:54 am Prasad Joshi wrote: > Hello All, > > I built an arm-linux kernel and trying to boot it using QEMU. But it > stalls after showing 'Uncompressing Linux...' > > $ qemu-system-arm -M realview-pbx-a9 -kernel clfskernel-2.6.36 -initrd > rootfs.gz -append "console=ttyAMA0 root=/dev/sda1 rw > ramdisk_size=32678" -m 256 -nographic > Uncompressing Linux... > > To debug I tried adding few prints in QEMU code, it seems to be > working I could see continues calls to cpu_exec() and cpu_arm_exec(). > > Then I added few prints around gunzip code in the kernel, the function > zlib_inflate() is not returning. > > root@prasad-desktop:~# du -sh clfskernel-2.6.36 > 1.7M clfskernel-2.6.36 > > root@prasad-desktop:~# du -sh rootfs.gz > 744K rootfs.gz > > root@prasad-desktop:~# du -sh initrd-rootfs > 128M initrd-rootfs > > root@prasad-desktop:~# du -sh initrd-rootfs.gz > 37M initrd-rootfs.gz > > initially I was using initrd-rootfs.gz (37M) as my root file system. I > thought of creating one more rootfs with less size (744K). None of > them is working. > So the problem seems to be with the kernel image (zImage) but it is > already very small (1.7M). > > Can someone please help? > > Please keep me in CC as I am not subscribed to the mailing list. > > Thanks and Regards, > Prasad > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with > "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx > Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ Maybe its uncompressing onto itself. Can you change the start address of the kernel uncompressing to a higher address? I used to change the link_address start on my powerpc when it used to hang when uncompressing. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
