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Altera_Forum
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16 years ago

Boot failures when zImage size goes a little over 3MB?

Has anyone else seen an issue like this? A zImage that's 3.0MB (4.6MB uncompressed), the kernel boots without fault. The vmlinux image, when stored as a u-boot uImage also boots. When ...
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16 years ago

Please try this patch instead. And let me know if it fix your problem.

Cheer,

Hippo 

diff --git a/arch/nios2/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/nios2/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index a169ed6..13f289a 100644
--- a/arch/nios2/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/nios2/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -117,6 +117,7 @@ SECTIONS
         . = ALIGN(4);
         __initramfs_start = .;
         *(.init.ramfs)
+        . = ALIGN(4);
         __initramfs_end = .;
     }
       __init_end = .;