From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris Wilkinson Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 11:16:09 -0400 Subject: [Buildroot] Creating initrd In-Reply-To: <20121011164826.753f8312@skate> References: <1349964303.8392.39.camel@Homeserver> <20121011164826.753f8312@skate> Message-ID: <1349968569.14474.10.camel@Homeserver> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net The .config is here http://pastebin.com/84LqnBXS This shows what I'm trying to achieve. http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.armel/ch05s01.html#boot-firmware. The output on the serial console goes like this on power up. >> No network interfaces found EM-7210 ver.T04 2005-12-12 (For ver.AA) == Executing boot script in 1.000 seconds - enter ^C to abort At this point, hit Control-C to interrupt the boot loader[4]. This will give you the RedBoot prompt. Enter the following commands: > load -v -r -b 0x01800000 -m ymodem ramdisk.gz > load -v -r -b 0x01008000 -m ymodem zImage > exec -c "console=ttyS0,115200 rw root=/dev/ram mem=256M at 0xa0000000" -r 0x01800000 Chris On Thu, 2012-10-11 at 16:48 +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > Dear Chris Wilkinson, > > On Thu, 11 Oct 2012 10:05:03 -0400, Chris Wilkinson wrote: > > I haven't been able to figure out how to get BR to create an initial > > ramdisk. > > > > I selected initramfs in Filesystem images. What I end up with is > > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 chrisw chrisw 38356992 Oct 11 09:00 rootfs.cpio > > -rw-r--r-- 1 chrisw chrisw 13666196 Oct 11 09:00 rootfs.cpio.gz > > -rw-r--r-- 1 chrisw chrisw 48346112 Oct 11 09:00 rootfs.ext2 > > -rw-r--r-- 1 chrisw chrisw 13990321 Oct 11 09:00 rootfs.ext2.gz > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 chrisw chrisw 1422576 Oct 11 09:01 zImage > > > > There is no initrd and the rootfs is way too big for flash. > > Forget about initrd, nobody uses that anymore. > > Can you post your entire .config? > > Thanks, > > Thomas