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On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 10:44 -0400, Jason wrote: |
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> Ok, I'm frustrated. :-) |
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> I have the kernel loaded and running via serial/TFTP into an NSLU2. It |
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> may not be configured correctly (duh), and the kernel command line might |
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> not be correct (also, duh). I've tried so many variants of the two, I |
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> can't see straight. I've also tried a gzip'd ramdisk, bzip2'd ramdisk, |
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> and a cpio ramdisk. Nothing works. /sbin/init is in the ramdisk. |
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> /dev/console and /dev/null are there also. |
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> I'm missing something basic. Could someone look over the output below |
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> and point me in the right direction? |
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> I suspect 'invalid compressed format (err=1)' might be a good indicator |
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> of what is wrong, but google isn't being cooperative today. |
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http://google.com/search?q=initramfs+cpio |
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first hit. |
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cd myramfs/ |
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find . | cpio -H newc --create --verbose | gzip -9 > ../myramfs.gz |
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I think the kernel is picky about the -H newc option. |
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> I'm not touching the flash until I can safely, and repeatably, boot from |
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> ram and run from ram. |
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> thx, |
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> Jason. |
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