From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 16:48:26 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] Creating initrd In-Reply-To: <1349964303.8392.39.camel@Homeserver> References: <1349964303.8392.39.camel@Homeserver> Message-ID: <20121011164826.753f8312@skate> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net 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