[U-Boot-Users] RE: start / load addresses for initrd

[Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>]

In message <EGEGIJHKDKJGAJMGIDPNGEFHCKAA.jwalden@digitalatlantic.com> you wrote:
> 
> >Where did you get this ramdisk image from?
> 
> I made the ramdisk image using the following procedure:
> 
> dd if=/dev/zero of=ramdisk bs=1k count=16384
> /sbin/mke2fs -q -F -m0 ramdisk
> mount -o loop ramdisk mountpoint
> cd mountpoint
> tar xf ../fsimage.tar

Where did you get "fsimage.tar" from? What does it contain.

> >What makes you think it is working at all?
> 
> I performed the following procedure to verify it.
> 
> [root at hhl initrd]# dd if=initrd of=ramdisk.gz bs=64 skip=1
> 23583+1 records in
> 23583+1 records out
> [root at hhl initrd]# gzip -d ramdisk.gz
> [root at hhl initrd]# mount -o loop ramdisk mountpoint
> [root at hhl initrd]# ls -al mountpoint
> total 26
> drwxr-xr-x   10 root     root         1024 Mar 20 15:34
> drwxr-xr-x    3 root     root         4096 Apr  1 16:31
> drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         1024 Mar 20 15:34
> drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         2048 Mar 20 15:34
> drwxr-xr-x    6 root     root         1024 Mar 20 15:34
> drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         2048 Mar 20 15:34
> drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root        12288 Mar 20 15:34
> drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         1024 Mar 20 15:34
> drwxr-xr-x    5 root     root         1024 Mar 20 15:34
> drwxr-xr-x    4 root     root         1024 Mar 20 15:34

Ummm... I don't even see a filename here. I don;t see if there is  an
"init" binary or a shell or any library or any device.

Which sort of output do you expect when providing such input? GIGO...


Wolfgang Denk

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