On Allwinner/Sunxi boards, the bootloader (often U-Boot) loads:

  • Kernel image (zImage, uImage, etc.)
  • Device Tree Blob (*.dtb)
  • Boot script (boot.scr or boot.cmd)
  • Root filesystem (from SD card/eMMC partition)

boot.scr

'Vyf6抌zEH   ?       P沙?                                    ?   setenv bootargs console=ttyS0,115200 console=tty0 panic=5 console=tty0 rootwait root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 earlyprintk rw
load mmc 0:1 0x41000000 zImage
load mmc 0:1 0x41800000 sun8i-v3x-yuzukick1n-linux.dtb
bootz 0x41000000 - 0x41800000

ref