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Altera_Forum
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15 years ago

How to make the uclinux boot faster?

Sash command shell (version 1.1.1) /> Uncompressing Linux... Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel. [ 0.000000] Linux version 2.6.30 (root@localhost.localdomain) (gcc version 3. 4...
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15 years ago

How do you make vmlinux bootable? It seems that the default boot loader wants to uncompress whatever is in the Flash.

After taking out the initramfs, I created the soft.flash image using the following command:

elf2flash --base=0x06000000 --end=0x06ffffff --reset=0x06300000 --input=vmlinux --output=soft.flash --boot=$SOPC_KIT_NIOS2/components/altera_nios2/boot_loader_cfi.srec

Then I wrote soft.flash to Flash. If I try to open the nios2-terminal, there is a partial message: "Uncompres" nothing else after that.

I'm using the NEEK board to test this out.

Thanks