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From: Richard Danter <richard.danter@ntlworld.com>
To: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org
Subject: initramfs on PowerPC
Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 13:32:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200705041332.27296.richard.danter@ntlworld.com> (raw)

Hi all,

I am having a problem booting a kernel with an initramfs. The kernel version 
is 2.6.14. The target is a ppc 82xx board.

I have tried both generating the cpio.gz file myself (find . | copi -o -H 
newc | gzip > ../initramfs_data.cpio.gz) and pointing initramfs source to a 
root FS directory (using xconfig) and then re-building my kernel.

Usually the error is "junk in compressed archive" though I also see an 
occasional error about padding.

I am using U-Boot to load the kernel image (uImage).

My host is SuSE 10.0 (x86), though I guess that shouldn't make any difference 
(endianism?).

Any thoughts on what I may be doing wrong?

Thanks
Rich

             reply	other threads:[~2007-05-04 12:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-04 12:32 Richard Danter [this message]
2007-05-04 19:02 ` initramfs on PowerPC David H. Lynch Jr.
2007-05-08 12:41   ` Richard Danter

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