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I want to use an uncompressed kernel image and boot the BeagleBoard. Generally I use uImage to boot the kernel which is in compressed format. How do I use an uncompressed kernel image?

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You are using U-Boot as the bootloader, right? – Gilles Feb 6 '12 at 23:43
yes! Is it possible using uboot? – Sharanya Feb 7 '12 at 5:56

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As far as I know, U-Boot cannot directly boot a “raw” ELF image (vmlinux). You need to turn it into the uImage format, which contains the compressed vmlinux plus a few extra bytes of metadata that describe the kernel load address. U-Boot FAQ 2.19 explains how to generate uImage; it's fairly straightforward, using the mkimage utility in the U-Boot source tree:

 mkimage -A arm -O linux -T kernel -C gzip … -d vmlinux uImage

(You may need extra parameters indicating the load address.)

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Uncompressing the uImage while booting takes some time. I need to minimize that. So i thought why dont i try with the uncompressed raw file vmlinux. – Sharanya Feb 7 '12 at 5:55

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