Re: netbooting a beaglebone

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 01:04:09PM -0700, Matt Thomas wrote:
> >> tftp ; bootm
> > 
> > Does it bring in extra functionalities ?
> 
> Depends.  netbsd.gz.ub is usually faster to load since it's compressed.
> For u-boot, we really recommend using the .ub

It doens't seem to work for me:
U-Boot# tftpboot 0x80300000 netbsd.gz.ub; bootm 0x80300000 
link up on port 0, speed 100, full duplex
Using cpsw device
TFTP from server 10.0.0.1; our IP address is 10.0.0.9
Filename 'netbsd.gz.ub'.
Load address: 0x80300000
Loading: #################################################################
         #######################################
done
Bytes transferred = 1521951 (17391f hex)
## Booting kernel from Legacy Image at 80300000 ...
   Image Name:   NetBSD/beagle 6.99.44
   Image Type:   ARM NetBSD Kernel Image (gzip compressed)
   Data Size:    1521887 Bytes = 1.5 MiB
   Load Address: 80300000
   Entry Point:  80300000
   Verifying Checksum ... OK
   Uncompressing Kernel Image ... Error: inflate() returned -3
GUNZIP: uncompress, out-of-mem or overwrite error - must RESET board to recover
resetting ...

I double-checked that the file loaded is not trucated or corrupted.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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