From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 19:11:55 -0700 From: Matt Porter To: Ashwin Bihari Cc: mporter@kernel.crashing.org, linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: Intial ramdisk and kernel Message-ID: <20031223191155.A27198@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 06:58:01PM -0500 Sender: owner-linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 06:58:01PM -0500, Ashwin Bihari wrote: > >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/. > > Matt, > > Ahh OK. Thank you for the details. > > >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 > > We are using PPCBug actually. Not sure if you're familiar with it's > capabilities in comparison to U-boot in ramdisk booting ability. Yes, very familiar with PPCBug. That is the "stock firmware" I mentioned above. The resultant zImage+initrd image is bootable from PPCBug. -Matt ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/