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I'm trying to create a initramfs for the Marvell OpenRD-client as Raúl |
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Porcel did for the SheevaPlug in his acclaimed tome: |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~armin76/arm/sheevaplug/install.xml |
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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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## Loading Ramdisk Image at 08000000 ... |
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Bad Magic Number |
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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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I'm wondering if the file should be in gzip format or something else? |
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Also, I read at the deprecated http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/genkernel.xml |
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that: |
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Additionally, you should enable SquashFS because most modern Gentoo |
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Installation CDs require it. |
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Does this apply to a kernel for the ARM processor such as Raul did? |
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It would be really educational to learn what the steps are for creating |
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an initramfs. |
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John Laurence Poole |
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