maybe try switching the order of the partitions around, so the smaller FATFS
partition is first on the disk and the linux fs second. the linux root image
will turn into /dev/hda2 instead of /dev/hda1.

thanks for the reply.
If i change the parition orders, will I need to do any changes to the build process (while building the bsp)?
or it will work as it is?

i doubt it, you should just be able to pass in root=/dev/hda2 instead of root=/dev/hda1

sorry, I did realise it shud not give a problem.
but i tried redoing the partitions.
FAT 16 - 10M+
Linux 45M+

and now i am still getting the same error
losh> mount fatfs /f
act c h s type c h s lba sects
part 0: 80 001 01 00 06 00e 30 1b 00000030 00004e90 FAT16 >32MB
part 1: 00 000 01 1c 83 00e 30 b1 00004ec0 0001a5e0 unknown type
part 2: 00 000 00 00 00 000 00 00 00000000 00000000 empty
part 3: 00 000 00 00 00 000 00 00 00000000 00000000 empty
losh> cd /f
losh> ls
r: VMLINUX 1452824
losh> load elf VMLINUX
RAM
ata_read: lba too big 124 at 250767865
fatfs_read: ata_read failed ffffffff
error reading image file (0)
elf boot failed.

could the problem be with the creation of the boot image (vmlinux) or the CF card. or anything like i might now have enuf memeory to load the boot image on the card engine.
Pls let me know wht seems likely?

i guess the most likely thing is that the elf image is incorrect
somehow. use the arm-elf-objdump tool to see if the program
header (which is what lolo uses to load an image) is correct.
use the -x option. the offset should be non-zero.

this is the output of objdump it looks good enuf?
I realy need to get this bsp working fast, is there somethign I can do?


/opt/Embedix/bdk/lh79520/build/rpmdir/BUILD/linux/vmlinux: file format elf32-little
/opt/Embedix/bdk/lh79520/build/rpmdir/BUILD/linux/vmlinux
architecture: UNKNOWN!, flags 0x00000102:
EXEC_P, D_PAGED
start address 0x200c8000

Program Header:
LOAD off 0x00008000 vaddr 0x200c8000 paddr 0x200c8000 align 2**15
filesz 0x00157c73 memsz 0x0017f39c flags rwx

Sections:
Idx Name Size VMA LMA File off Algn
0 .init 00013000 200c8000 200c8000 00008000 2**5
CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, CODE
1 .text 0012d2f8 200db000 200db000 0001b000 2**5
CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, CODE
2 .kstrtab 00003fbc 202082f8 202082f8 001482f8 2**2
CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, DATA
3 __ex_table 00000910 2020c2c0 2020c2c0 0014c2c0 2**3
CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, DATA
4 __ksymtab 00001ed0 2020cbd0 2020cbd0 0014cbd0 2**2
CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, DATA
5 .data 0000fc73 20210000 20210000 00150000 2**5
CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, DATA
6 .bss 0002771c 2021fc80 2021fc80 0015fc80 2**5
ALLOC
7 .comment 00002cae 60000000 60000000 0015fc80 2**0
CONTENTS, READONLY
SYMBOL TABLE:
no symbols