Booting from onboard flash

amareesh at tataelxsi.co.in amareesh at tataelxsi.co.in
Wed May 4 05:47:14 EDT 2005


Hi 

Plzz help me on this. .
I want to boot Linux image straight from my onboard flash.

WHat i have ::

1. Motorola coldfire 5272C3 based board.
2. Complied uClinux for the same.
3. have the image for LINUX +FILESYSTEM(romfs)
4. Have copied this image to flash.

What i wanna do :

I want to use the dBug option go <start address> to boot straight from
flash.
As of now, It is not doing so after i replug the power cable. 
I have to copy the entire image block from the flash to RAm and then
give the command 'go <RAMaddress>'. 

Can anyone plzz help me on this.

Amareesh





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