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On Thursday, December 09, 2010 18:51:39 John L. Poole wrote: |
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> I've created a topic "Help with initramfs for Marvell OpenRD-Client LE" |
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> in the forum, http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-6511131.html#6511131, |
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> outlining what I have done and the failure I have met with: |
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> tftpboot 0x8000000 initramfs |
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> ... |
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> ## Loading Ramdisk Image at 08000000 ... |
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> Bad Magic Number |
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initramfs is not a ramdisk. that is an initrd. |
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> My question that could be readily answered is: when preparing the |
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> initramfs for a staged tree at /usr/src/initramfs, is the command |
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> cd /usr/src/initramfs/ |
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> find . -print0 | cpio --null -ov --format=newc | gzip -9 > [outputfile] |
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why dont you just build it into the kernel ? set CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE to |
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the path of your rootfs and let the kernel worry about making one. |
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otherwise, the only sane way is to use the scripts/gen_initramfs_lists.sh and |
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usr/gen_init_cpio helper utils in the kernel. mucking about yourself with |
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find/cpio/gzip is plain crazy. |
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-mike |
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