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Hi all, |
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Im building an x86 embedded distro using gentoo. Now i have been rather |
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successful. I have built the whole system and it works, while only |
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taking up 9mb (when gzipped). |
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Now my question is how to get linux to load the gzipped image file into |
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a ramdisk and use it as a root filesystem. |
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Running the system directly from the CF card works great, but when |
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trying to get it to run it in ram it fails |
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with "kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(1,0)". |
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My attempt at running the system from ram is as follows: |
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(grub config file): |
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kernel /vmlinuz initrd=/rootfs.gz root=/dev/ram0 |
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the rootfs.gz file is ~10Mb, and when uncompressed is an 100mb image |
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(most of the image is free space to |
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allow for future additions, this is a test bed). |
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Now I presume this is probably what is incorrect, in which case can |
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anyone help me regarding how to use |
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ramdisks as root devices. (googling about tells me that the initrd image |
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is not the root image, but rather |
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a pre-root mounting fs to prepare the system for booting). |
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P.S Please CC me as this mailinglist doesnt play nice with my email |
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account. thanks! |
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