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