From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] Creating initrd
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 16:48:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121011164826.753f8312@skate> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1349964303.8392.39.camel@Homeserver>
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
--
Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons
Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux
development, consulting, training and support.
http://free-electrons.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-11 14:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-11 14:05 [Buildroot] Creating initrd Chris Wilkinson
2012-10-11 14:48 ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2012-10-11 15:16 ` Chris Wilkinson
2012-10-11 15:23 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2012-10-11 17:28 ` Chris Wilkinson
2012-10-11 18:53 ` Thomas Petazzoni
[not found] ` <1349988968.14474.34.camel@Homeserver>
[not found] ` <20121012091408.6184bb9f@skate>
[not found] ` <1350049738.14474.52.camel@Homeserver>
2012-10-12 14:12 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2012-10-12 15:19 ` Chris Wilkinson
2012-10-12 14:23 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2012-10-11 21:45 ` Chris Wilkinson
2012-10-12 7:10 ` Thomas Petazzoni
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