Booting problems

I am booting a compressed initramfs kernel.

I have hit what appears to be a size issue. simply adding more data
to the initramfs source directory,
or adding even a small amount of unused code to my kernel causes it
to hang after relocation during boot.
The point of failure varies with the size of the kernel image.

I have tried blindly jiggering with the CONFIG_ADVANCED_OPTIONS
setting with no noticable effect.
The total zImage.elf size is just shy of 3Mb.

Does anyone have an idea what I need to do to be able to load a
larger image ?

Hi,

David> I have tried blindly jiggering with the
David> CONFIG_ADVANCED_OPTIONS setting with no noticable effect. The David> total zImage.elf size is just shy of 3Mb.

David> Does anyone have an idea what I need to do to be able to
David> load a larger image ?

How big is your vmlinux? I guess you are running into the 4MB limit.

See the recent thread about it:
http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-embedded/2006-August/023977.html

Bye, Peter Korsgaard