On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 2:23 AM, ali hagigat <hagigatali(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> My RAM code was OK(I remember all the members of this mailing list
> said:"your RAM initialization is not OK", if RAM is not OK how
> "romstage", "ramstage" and now "filo" are being executed!!
I've had this work with RAM that is not OK.
> Now "ramstage" part is copied into RAM and executed and i have added
> FILO 0.5.6 as a payload. main() function of FILO is executed and tried
> to read vmlinuz and initrd from harddisk and copy them to 0x100000.
> Every thing is OK, IDE is initialized correctly and it seems that
> those files are read and copied well. (/boot and all its files and
> folders are recognized even lost+found !!)
Yes, I've also had this work with RAM that is not ok. however did you
try out earlyprintk to a serial port to see how far the kernel is
booting?
Did you ever run memtest?
ron