[U-Boot-Users] Create initrd tool without being root?

[U-Boot-Users] Create initrd tool without being root?

[Donald White]

I thought someone on this list recently mentioned a tool dor creating initrd without 
  being root.  I couldn't find it i the archives.  Can someone help me?

Don

[U-Boot-Users] Create initrd tool without being root?

[Stephan Linz]

Am Freitag, 28. M?rz 2003 07:43 schrieben Sie:
> I thought someone on this list recently mentioned a tool dor creating
> initrd without being root.  I couldn't find it i the archives.  Can someone
> help me?

If you want to build a ext2 inside your initrd you should use genext2fs. Have 
a look at :

Debian:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/debian/pool/main/g/genext2fs/

Denx ELDK:
ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/eldk/eldk-ppc-linux-x86/2.0.2/RPMS/genext2fs-1.3-2.i386.rpm

Project Home (very empty):
http://sourceforge.net/projects/genext2fs/


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[U-Boot-Users] Create initrd tool without being root?

[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <3E83EF1D.4050509@asu.edu> you wrote:
> I thought someone on this list recently mentioned a tool dor creating initrd without 
>   being root.  I couldn't find it i the archives.  Can someone help me?

The ELDK (in current versions) uses the genext2fs to build  the  SELF
ramdisk  images.  For  example, you can check out the "spec" file for
the SELF RPM from our ELDK build environment und manually go  through
the tsteps. Or just follow the usgae message:

	-> genext2fs 
	Usage: genext2fs [options] image
	Create an ext2 filesystem image from directories/files

	  -x image                Use this image as a starting point
	  -d directory            Add this directory as source
	  -f file                 Add nodes (e.g. devices) from this spec file
	  -b blocks               Size in blocks
	  -i inodes               Number of inodes
	  -r reserved             Number of reserved blocks
	  -g path                 Generate a block map file for this path
	  -e value                Fill unallocated blocks with value
	  -z                      Make files with holes
	  -v                      Print resulting filesystem structure
	  -h                      Show this help

	Example of spec file:
	drwx            /dev
	crw-    10,190  /dev/lcd
	brw-    1,0     /dev/ram0

	Report bugs to xavier.bestel at free.fr


Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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[U-Boot-Users] Create initrd tool without being root?

[Donald White]

Thanks.

Stephan Linz wrote:
> Am Freitag, 28. M?rz 2003 07:43 schrieben Sie:
> 
>>I thought someone on this list recently mentioned a tool dor creating
>>initrd without being root.  I couldn't find it i the archives.  Can someone
>>help me?
> 
> 
> If you want to build a ext2 inside your initrd you should use genext2fs. Have 
> a look at :
> 
> Debian:
> http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/debian/pool/main/g/genext2fs/
> 
> Denx ELDK:
> ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/eldk/eldk-ppc-linux-x86/2.0.2/RPMS/genext2fs-1.3-2.i386.rpm
> 
> Project Home (very empty):
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/genext2fs/
> 
> 
> -8<--snip-->8-
> Best regards

[U-Boot-Users] Create initrd tool without being root?

[Donald White]

Thanks.

Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> In message <3E83EF1D.4050509@asu.edu> you wrote:
> 
>>I thought someone on this list recently mentioned a tool dor creating initrd without 
>>  being root.  I couldn't find it i the archives.  Can someone help me?
> 
> 
> The ELDK (in current versions) uses the genext2fs to build  the  SELF
> ramdisk  images.  For  example, you can check out the "spec" file for
> the SELF RPM from our ELDK build environment und manually go  through
> the tsteps. Or just follow the usgae message:
> 
> 	-> genext2fs 
> 	Usage: genext2fs [options] image
> 	Create an ext2 filesystem image from directories/files
> 
> 	  -x image                Use this image as a starting point
> 	  -d directory            Add this directory as source
> 	  -f file                 Add nodes (e.g. devices) from this spec file
> 	  -b blocks               Size in blocks
> 	  -i inodes               Number of inodes
> 	  -r reserved             Number of reserved blocks
> 	  -g path                 Generate a block map file for this path
> 	  -e value                Fill unallocated blocks with value
> 	  -z                      Make files with holes
> 	  -v                      Print resulting filesystem structure
> 	  -h                      Show this help
> 
> 	Example of spec file:
> 	drwx            /dev
> 	crw-    10,190  /dev/lcd
> 	brw-    1,0     /dev/ram0
> 
> 	Report bugs to xavier.bestel at free.fr
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Wolfgang Denk
>