From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 16:50:49 -0700 From: Matt Porter To: Ashwin Bihari Cc: linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: Intial ramdisk and kernel Message-ID: <20031223165049.A26159@home.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: ; from raz0redge@hotmail.com on Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 04:54:42PM -0500 Sender: owner-linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 04:54:42PM -0500, Ashwin Bihari wrote: > >From my reading these lists and other forums, it seems that with the PPC > platform, I have to compile the INITRD into the kernel, how do I go about > doing this??? > > I'm using a PrPMC800 based installation. Any and all help appreciated. With the stock firmware on a PrPMC800, yes, you have to attach the ramdisk to the kernel. You do this by copying the compressed ramdisk image to arch/ppc/boot/images/ramdisk.image.gz. Then do a 'make zImage.initrd'. That will deposit a zImage+initrd image into arch/ppc/boot/images/. If you have a U-boot port to your board then you can be a lot more flexible since it can load a kernel image and ramdisk separately. -Matt ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/