On Wednesday 30 August 2006 13:15, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > Michel Lespinasse wrote: > [snip] > > > What happens is that t-rex builds an ecoff image, I suppose this is what > > the firmware on a real decstation would boot. However gxemul does not > > have any firmware, it only knows how to load an ELF file and get it > > started. Well supposedly it should also be able to load a binary file > > such as the initrd image, but for some reason I've been unable to figure > > out the glue to make that work. So what I need is the debian kernel + > > initrd image in a single ELF file. > > Maybe you can convert the initrd into a cpio archive and append it at > the kernel image. I heard this is supposed to work, I haven't tried it > myself. It works, BUT you must build this as part of the kernel build (in recent kernels only). If you try to append it later then, due to what I think is a bug in objcopy, it fails.
I have used this to good effect to netboot (a bit like PXE boot) Microtik RB-532 boards (which are mips based). David > > > The way to go apparently is to build a kernel with the mips config option > > CONFIG_EMBEDDED_RAMDISK so that the initrd image is embedded with the > > kernel image. I'll try that tomorrow and see what happens. Incidently > > this is also how I got confused as I did not know my kernel image had > > such an embedded initrd image (with the sarge installer... grumpf :) > > CONFIG_EMBEDDED_RAMDISK is obsolete and was removed a while ago from > upstream kernels. > > > Thiemo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
