From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 20:53:48 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] Creating initrd In-Reply-To: <1349976484.14474.20.camel@Homeserver> References: <1349964303.8392.39.camel@Homeserver> <20121011164826.753f8312@skate> <1349968569.14474.10.camel@Homeserver> <20121011172356.6af76f39@skate> <1349976484.14474.20.camel@Homeserver> Message-ID: <20121011205348.4a861421@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 13:28:04 -0400, Chris Wilkinson wrote: > I had not done 'make clean' first. Having done that and rebuilt with > the same config I now have, > > -rw-r--r-- 1 chrisw chrisw 49223680 Oct 11 13:14 rootfs.cpio > -rw-r--r-- 1 chrisw chrisw 17878125 Oct 11 13:15 rootfs.cpio.gz > -rwxr-xr-x 1 chrisw chrisw 19337904 Oct 11 13:17 zImage > > It would appear that the initramfs has been embedded within zImage. > Still way too big. This is a puzzle since as you say I took care to > not enable any but the most basic of packages. Can you put online somewhere your kernel tarball and your kernel config so that I can build your Buildroot configuration and try to reproduce the problem? Thanks, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com