[Ppcboot-users] Using initrd and ramdisk

[Derrick B. F. <db...@wa...>]

I am currently using PPCBoot to boot Linux on some custom MPC860 -based
hardware. I have programmed PPCBoot, Linux 2.2.14, and the
image-2.2.14-initrd file that came with PPCBoot into my flash. When I
boot Linux per the documentation that comes with PCCBOOT I get the
following prompts:

:>bootm fe080000 fe100000
## Booting Linux kernel at fe080000 ...
   Image Name:   Linux 2.2.14 for DSLAP
   Image Type:   PowerPC Linux Kernel Image (gzip compr
   Data Size:    206947 Bytes = 202 kB = 0 MB
   Load Address: 00000000
   Entry Point:  0000000c
   Verifying Checksum ... OK
   Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
## Loading RAMDisk Image at fe100000 ...
   Image Name:   Initrd for Linux Kernel 2.2.14
   Image Type:   PowerPC Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
   Data Size:    794562 Bytes = 775 kB = 0 MB
   Load Address: 00000000
   Entry Point:  00000000
   Verifying Checksum ... OK
   Loading Ramdisk ... OK
Linux version 2.2.14 (root@localhost.localdomain) (gcc version 2.95.2
19991030 (
2.95.3 prerelease/franzo)) #181 Thu Dec 14 17:09:50 CST 2000
Boot arguments: root=/dev/ram
time_init: decrementer frequency = 187500000/60
Calibrating delay loop... 49.66 BogoMIPS
Memory: 31052k available (376k kernel code, 544k data, 20k init)
[c0000000,c2000
000]
Dentry hash table entries: 4096 (order 3, 32k)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 32768 (order 5, 128k)
Page cache hash table entries: 8192 (order 3, 32k)
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Starting kswapd v 1.5
CPM UART driver version 0.03
ttyS00 at 0x0280 is a SMC
ttyS01 at 0x0380 is a SMC
ttyS02 at 0x0000 is a SCC
ttyS03 at 0x0200 is a SCC
RAM disk driver initialized:  16 RAM disks of 4096K size
RAMDISK: Couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0.
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:00
Rebooting in 180 seconds..

I am almost certain that I am not configuring something properly. Does
anyone have a suggestion?

Thanks

Derrick B. Forte