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Redhat booting Linux - newbie question



Hi all,

     I am a newbie to Redhat and am considering some pointers to the
following questions.

    1) I tried to boot Linux using Redhat on a Rattler board. The board
I am having is a Rattler board (MPC8280) but the Linux kernel I am
having is a kernel for MPC8260ads board (Please don't ask me to change
the kernel for Rattler board). I build the kernel with initial ramdisk
and download the kernel onto the target (rattler board) at the address
0x00400000.[This is the address which is given in mkimage command]. The
kernel build is zImage.initrd.elf .

       But when I tried to give a <go 0x00400000> redboot starts
printing some junk for every key pressed on the keyboard [I feel that
the control is not transferred to the Linux Kernel but is still in the
Redboot or redboot is throwing some exception]. Please give me guidance
on booting the Linux Kernel with using Redboot.


2) Can anyone give me pointers on how much time Redboot takes to boot a
Linux Kernel (redboot boot + decompression]?

With Best Regards,
C.R.Srivatsan   

    



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