Ognjen Bezanov wrote:
Thanks, that was helpful. Now the system finds the root fs and loads it.
But the system still wont boot. It tells me RAMDISK: Compressed image
found at block 0 as a final kernel message, then just sits there (for
ages). At lease its closer to functioning then before,
Richard Fish wrote:
Is this an initrd or initramfs (aka, cpio.gz) image?
If it is initrd, you should have a /linuxrc script to initialize the
system. For grub, you will need:
kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc
initrd=/rootfs.gz
Then your linuxrc script must *not* exit.
On 8/17/05, Ognjen Bezanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,
Im building an x86 embedded distro using gentoo. Now i have been rather
successful. I have built the whole system and it works, while only
taking up 9mb (when gzipped).
Now my question is how to get linux to load the gzipped
Is this an initrd or initramfs (aka, cpio.gz) image?
If it is initrd, you should have a /linuxrc script to initialize the
system. For grub, you will need:
kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc
initrd=/rootfs.gz
Then your linuxrc script must *not* exit. It will
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