I unfortunately migrated by Debian to buster before reading the notes for the QNAP. Now I have an initrd ~ 6M. I did move my /boot partition to a non-LVM partition, so I can skip adding LVM to my initrd. Even so, it's large, with the main culprits apparently libcrypto and libc.
Is there a way I can put the initrd into any extra unused NVRAM? I saw an email about RootFS2, but I'm not sure how I can configure flash_kernel to write to those partitions. If I can't use flash_kernel, do these DD command lines work? % dd if=/boot/initrd of=/dev/mtd2 size=1024 count=4096 % dd if=/boot/initrd of=/dev/mtd3 size=1024 skip=4096 count=1024 And then the bootcmd: % fw_setenv bootargs 'console=ttyS0,115200n8 root=/dev/ram rw initrd=0x800000,0x4fffff' % fw_setenv bootcmd 'cp.b 0xff200000 0x800000 0x3fffff; cp.b 0xff600000 0xC00000 0xfffff; bootm 0xff000000' I don't have a serial console so I'm being extra careful and would appreciate any feedback. I'm especially not sure I have the right addr/size for the dd and cp.b commands. I assume the bootm will execute from the Kernel MTD block? Thanks, Luigi
