On Tuesday 02 October 2007, Natanael Copa wrote: > 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
ugh, no ... there are helper scripts in the kernel so people dont have to use cpio themselves ... the easiest is: make CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE=/path/to/your/rootfs/ ...
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