From: mandeepsandhu.chd@gmail.com (Mandeep Sandhu)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Problem with rootfs mounting
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 16:03:09 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=LSyRqDZSn0HVt4+uqj2NERuyFrC8GORgGaP+N@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=TyrWKXSpFAYeC3F9Fn+LuPKhzfmTS1iM-QaqX@mail.gmail.com>
> But, I have not found how I can do this in Linux..
> I have chosen the filesystem ROMFS in the .config file.
> Where and how the romfs tree is created and included to the kernel image?
We're using an embedded MIPS platform with busybox.
We build the rootfs image (busybox build) and point to its location in
the kernel menu config. Though I beleive that menu config is coming
due to our vendor patched kernel. I'm not sure if this option is
available in vanilla kernels.
Doing this creates a cpio archive of whatever root dir we point to in
the kernel config...which is then added to the kernel as a ramfs
image.
>
> This question concerns also all the necessary user applications like "init"
> and "sh".
If you have a busybox based system, then init is essentially the busybox shell.
HTH,
-mandeep
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2011-03-21 14:41 Problem with rootfs mounting stl
2011-03-22 10:33 ` Mandeep Sandhu [this message]
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