yes, that is what I was planning to do. But to avoid using the internal meamo rootfs i need to define a proper initrd filesystem to be loaded.

One other thing though with your u-boot version. When I go into console mode the screen gets garbled as soon as scrolling is needed. e.g. press enter a couple of times, or run the help command will make the screen unreadable.

Did you notice this an/dor know how to fix this? It would also be nice the be able to scroll back to see the earlier text, or allow output to be piped to some sorte of 'more' command...