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13 years ago

Problem booting latest version of nios2 uClinux

I have the latest version of nios2 uClinux using the dts file created from sopcinfo. I never see the "Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel." message before the Linux startup. This leads me t...
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Altera_Forum
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13 years ago

Hi,

Maybe you have uncompressed kernel 'vmlinux' somewhere, please read the elf header by 'nios2-*****-readelf' -a vmlimux > ***. If you see the section '.init.ramfs' etc. and it has enough size, then I think that it's time for 'kernel debuging'. There are several popular method, 'printk' or gdb.....

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