Uboot and initramfs

Hi,

I'm struggling with the topic for long two days and I want to ask for help.

I have a DNS-320 system with u-boot. I compiled kernel and it works well, but I need initramfs. I prepared contents on this system (ARM) (no need to cross-compile), then did:

find . -print0 | cpio --null -ov --format=newc | gzip -9 > initramfs mkimage -A arm -O linux -T ramdisk -C gzip -n "Some name" -d initramfs initramfs.kwb

flash_eraseall /dev/mtd2
nandwrite -p /dev/mtd2 ./initramfs.kwb

reboot

Marvell_DNS320>> nand read.e 0xa00000 0x100000 0x200000

NAND read: device 0 offset 0x100000, size 0x200000 load addr .... =a00000

2097152 bytes read: OK
Marvell_DNS320>> nand read.e 0xf00000 0x600000 0x500000

NAND read: device 0 offset 0x600000, size 0x500000 load addr .... =f00000

5242880 bytes read: OK
Marvell_DNS320>> bootm 0xa00000 0xf00000
## Booting image at 00a00000 ...

    Image Name:   Linux-3.4.4
    Created:      2012-07-08  11:45:53 UTC
    Image Type:   ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
    Data Size:    2039456 Bytes =  1.9 MB
    Load Address: 00008000
    Entry Point:  00008000
    Verifying Checksum ... OK
OK
## Loading Ramdisk Image at 0f00000 ...
    Image Name:   Initramfs 3.4.4
    Created:      2012-07-15  16:08:35 UTC
    Image Type:   ARM Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed)
    Data Size:    4816677 Bytes =  4.6 MB
    Load Address: 00000000
    Entry Point:  00000000
    Verifying Checksum ... OK

Starting kernel ...

And here it hangs.

If I skip passing initramfs system boots properly. What is wrong?

Cheers,
Wojtek

In your mkimage command, try changing "-C gzip" to "-C none".

frank