Hi, the following links might be useful on how to build a ramdisk image containing a working Linux root file system:
http://www.denx.de/twiki/bin/view/DULG/AddingFilesToRamdiskIsNonPersistent http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT5955697568.html Good luck. Wolfgang. >-- Original Message -- >From: "hyding" <nari_dhy at nari-china.com> >To: "ARIBAUD Albert" <a.aribaud at giat-industries.fr> >Cc: "linuxppc-embed" <linuxppc-embedded at lists.linuxppc.org> >Subject: Re: RAMDISK: incomplete write (ramdisk too small?) >Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 21:11:56 +0800 > > > >hi, Albert > Thanks a lot. > It doesn't complain now and mounts initrd now. But it still has some >problem. > It immediately umount initrd and mount disk fs. I think there is no program >in ramdisk. I only installed busybox into the ramdisk. > What more is needed to make up of the ramdisk. >Thanks! > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "ARIBAUD Albert" <a.aribaud at giat-industries.fr> >To: "Linuxppc-Embedded (E-mail)" <linuxppc-embedded at lists.linuxppc.org> >Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2003 4:30 PM >Subject: RE: RAMDISK: incomplete write (ramdisk too small?) > > >> >> > -----Message d'origine----- >> > De : owner-linuxppc-embedded at lists.linuxppc.org >> > [mailto:owner-linuxppc-embedded at lists.linuxppc.org]De la part >> > de hyding >> > Envoy? : mercredi 10 d?cembre 2003 02:51 >> > ? : linuxppc-embed >> > Objet : RAMDISK: incomplete write (ramdisk too small?) >> > >> > >> > >> > hi,all >> > I made an initrd but failed to boot.The process about making the >> > initrd is as follows: >> > dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/ramdisk.image bs=1k count=8192 >> >> Looks like you're building a ramdisk bigger than 4megs. >> The kernel need a RAMDISK_SIZE=8192k command line argument for your >> 8meg ramdisk to work, I think. >> >> Albert. >> >> >> >> > > ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
