From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnout Vandecappelle Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 07:53:04 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] Udev on a live CD system does not appear to populate /dev In-Reply-To: <509BDDDD.3040002@petroprogram.com> References: <5099186E.1030409@macrium.com> <509958D9.7050108@petroprogram.com> <5099A14C.5000204@mind.be> <509AA0C4.4060506@petroprogram.com> <509BA71B.6020009@petroprogram.com> <509BD78A.8050908@macrium.com> <509BDDDD.3040002@petroprogram.com> Message-ID: <50A1EE50.4010008@mind.be> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On 08/11/12 17:29, Stefan Fr?berg wrote: > If you ever want to use the maximum compression method supported by > modern kernels (XZ compression) > then change that initramfs generation command to this: > > find . -not \( -path "./boot" -prune \) -print0 | cpio --null -ov --format=newc > | xz --check=crc32> /livecd/initramfs.xz > > Without that --check=crc32 parameter you won't be able to boot > XZ-compressed initramfs. It would be good to have this in buildroot. Care to add a config option BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_CPIO_XZ? Using host-xz, of course, since not all systems have xz installed. Regards, Arnout -- Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind be Senior Embedded Software Architect +32-16-286540 Essensium/Mind http://www.mind.be G.Geenslaan 9, 3001 Leuven, Belgium BE 872 984 063 RPR Leuven LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/arnoutvandecappelle GPG fingerprint: 7CB5 E4CC 6C2E EFD4 6E3D A754 F963 ECAB 2450 2F1F