[fedora-arm] changing kernel w/ uboot

Dennis Gilmore dennis at ausil.us
Wed Mar 14 18:47:49 UTC 2012


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On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 13:02:50 -0400 (EDT)
Matthew Galgoci <mgalgoci at redhat.com> wrote:

> 
> How does one change the kernel that uboot loads from mtdflash and
> instead boots a kernel from an ext filesystem on an attached (uboot
> supported) usb flash drive? Furthermore, is there a way to get uboot
> to also load an initial ram file (disk or fs)? The hardware in
> question is a guru plug and I've got the jtag and console adapter.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Matt
> 
on a guruplug you need to edit the values stored in nvram you can do it
two ways, 1) interupting the boot process and  using printenv setenv
editenv saveenv  to get set and save the variables.
 there is a utility in uboot-tools that should let you edit it from the
 running system

Dennis
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