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From: Matt Porter <porter@cox.net>
To: Aman <aman@mistralsoftware.com>
Cc: linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: RamDisk
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 15:08:55 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020912150855.A8861@home.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <001801c25a8e$89884420$370da8c0@aman>; from aman@mistralsoftware.com on Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 12:29:35AM +0530


On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 12:29:35AM +0530, Aman wrote:
>
> Hi All
>
> I am using a PPC 440 evaluation Kit with openbios as the monitor code. I
> have successfully download kernel image using the NFS. Now I want to create
> a RAMDISK for the PPC 440. After which I want to download the RAMDISK and
> the kernel image to the RAM. My question is, using the monitor
> code(OpenBios), is it possible to download both the image ie RAMDISK and
> Kernel image to the RAM.

Put your compressed ramdisk image in arch/ppc/boot/images/ramdisk.image.gz
and make the zImage.initrd target.  The resulting zImage.initrd.ebony
has the compressed ramdisk image linked in.

Regards,
--
Matt Porter
porter@cox.net
This is Linux Country. On a quiet night, you can hear Windows reboot.

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  reply	other threads:[~2002-09-12 22:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-09-12 18:59 RamDisk Aman
2002-09-12 22:08 ` Matt Porter [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-02-21 16:15 Problem porting 2.4.17 linux to MPC8260ADS Kamalesh B
2003-02-21 17:04 ` Dan Malek
2003-02-24  6:45   ` Kamalesh B
2003-02-24  8:10     ` Shen Rong
2003-02-28  5:31       ` RAMDISK Kamalesh B
2003-02-28 21:29         ` RAMDISK Wolfgang Denk

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