David H. Lynch Jr. wrote: > Grant Likely wrote: > > I have never tried to build an initrd system.
rolling up an initrd & kernel is actually very simple; but I had to read the Makefile to figure out how to do it! I do it by copying ramdisk.image.gz into arch/ppc/boot/images and building 'make zImage.initrd'. > > I like initramfs - the only problem I had putting it together was > finding the information to do it. > > In the instance of the E12 I needed something that was wrapped into a > single file with the kernl. The E12 already had an elf loader, but all > it did was load elf files. It did not handle ramdisk other images etc. > INITRAMFS provided a means to start on the E12 without having to write > another loader. So... how do you build the initramfs? I'd prefer to use initramfs; I just haven't had a whole lot of luck with it and other concerns took my focus. :/ Thanks, g. -- Grant Likely, B.Sc. P.Eng. Secret Lab Technologies Ltd. (403) 663-0761
