Other Parts Discussed in Thread: OMAP-L138
I am using the OMAP-L138 eXperimenter Kit and I'm trying to boot from flash with my kernel and root file system obtained from Timesys Linux. I follow the steps in "GSG:_OMAP-L138_DVEVM_Additional_Procedures" and so far I'm able to copy my kernel and filesystem to flash and set my "bootarg" and "bootcmd" variables accordingly to boot from flash. My kernel seems to load and boot fine but my filesystem (in .tar.gz format) does not, it is not even being recognized and my boot process just hangs when it's looking for it. I'm speculating it might be because of my filesystem's format. The example in "GSG:_Installing_the_Software_for_OMAP-L138" uses ramdisk-base.gz format for the filesystem.
Should my current .tar.gz format work or should I try changing it to another format? If so, can you suggest other filesystem formats that might work with SPI Flash besides ramdisk-base?
Is there a way to create a ramdisk-base.gz from my current .tar.gz?
