Subject: Booting NetBSD using U-Boot
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org, tech-kern@netbsd.org,>
From: Chan-youn Park <phygeeks@gmail.com>
List: port-sandpoint
Date: 04/26/2005 15:02:57
Hi. I'm working on a Sandpoint-based diskless platform.=20
When I boot NetBSD ELF image using U-Boot, a universal bootloader for
PowerPC and other platforms, I see the following message.
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[ netbsd symbol table has bad start address 0x1 ]
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I think that it occurs because proper boot arguments are not given to
NetBSD kernel.
I booted NetBSD kernel using U-Boot command 'bootelf', which I think
just executes an ELF-formated executable image. But a kernel image is
not just an executable file, so it seems that to boot the kernel
properly, I should use U-Boot command 'bootm', which executes an image
according to the header of the image, which is made from a utility
'mkimage' given along with U-Boot.
Well, so when I've tried to use that tool, I could see the following option=
s.
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Usage: ./mkimage -l image
-l =3D=3D> list image header information
./mkimage -A arch -O os -T type -C comp -a addr -e ep -n name
-d data_file[:data_file...] image
-A =3D=3D> set architecture to 'arch'
-O =3D=3D> set operating system to 'os'
-T =3D=3D> set image type to 'type'
-C =3D=3D> set compression type 'comp'
-a =3D=3D> set load address to 'addr' (hex)
-e =3D=3D> set entry point to 'ep' (hex)
-n =3D=3D> set image name to 'name'
-d =3D=3D> use image data from 'datafile'
-x =3D=3D> set XIP (execute in place)
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Some options are obvious, but for -a, -e, -x, I have no idea. When I
left that option as blanks and made an image, it would not boot, with
following messages.
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## Booting image at 00500000 ...
Image Name:
Image Type: PowerPC NetBSD Kernel Image (uncompressed)
Data Size: 1694127 Bytes =3D 1.6 MB
Load Address: 00500000
Entry Point: 00500000
Verifying Checksum ... OK
XIP Kernel Image ... OK
## Transferring control to NetBSD stage-2 loader (at address 00500000) ...
NIP: 00500000 XER: 00000000 LR: 07FD3514 REGS: 07f1fc80 TRAP: 0700 DAR: 005=
00000
MSR: 00083032 EE: 0 PR: 0 FP: 1 ME: 1 IR/DR: 11
GPR00: 07FD34FC 07F1FD70 FFFFFF1F 07F1FFC8 00000000 07FEC538 07FEC538 00000=
005
GPR08: 00000001 00000020 FFFFFFFF 07FEC6A4 00000000 00000000 07FF0000 080C0=
000
GPR16: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000001 00000000 07FD4318 00000000 07FEC=
538
GPR24: 07F40278 00000002 07FD4318 00500040 00500000 07F1FF94 07FF0B68 07FEC=
538
Call backtrace:
Program Check Exception
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Can somebody help me? And does an ELF image work with U-Boot and its mkimag=
e?