Hay Thanks Jtd. Actually I am kernel newbies. I am cross compiling 2.6.35 for mips based devised which has Debian lenny 5.0 on it from ubuntu 11.04 host using mipsel-linux-gcc-3.4.4. I may be wrong. I have tried what you said. Following is the o/p for this.
root@pravin-P5GZ-MX:/opt/linux-2.6.35/usr# update-initramfs -u update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.38-8-generic ( I think this has updated the initramfs for my ubuntu host) root@pravin-P5GZ-MX:/opt/linux-2.6.35/usr# update-initramfs -c -k 2.6.35-1-686 update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.35-1-686 grep: /boot/config-2.6.35-1-686: No such file or directory WARNING: missing /lib/modules/2.6.35-1-686 Device driver support needs thus be built-in linux image! WARNING: Couldn't open directory /lib/modules/2.6.35-1-686: No such file or directory FATAL: Could not open /lib/modules/2.6.35-1-686/modules.dep.temp for writing: No such file or directory root@pravin-P5GZ-MX:/opt/linux-2.6.35/usr# update-initramfs -c -k 2.6.35 update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.35 grep: /boot/config-2.6.35: No such file or directory WARNING: missing /lib/modules/2.6.35 Device driver support needs thus be built-in linux image! WARNING: Couldn't open directory /lib/modules/2.6.35: No such file or directory FATAL: Could not open /lib/modules/2.6.35/modules.dep.temp for writing: No such file or directory On 25 October 2011 20:17, <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tuesday 25 Oct 2011 19:22:50 Pravinkumar Chavan wrote: > > Hay thanks. > > > > First Happy Diwali to you. > > > > When I was compiling the kernel I got error > > > > /opt/linux-2.6.35/scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh: Cannot open > > '/opt/linux-2.6.35/usr/initramfs.cpio' > > make[1]: *** [usr/initramfs_data.cpio] Error 1 > > make: *** [usr] Error 2 > > > > I have the compiled version of 2.6.28. so I in menuconfig for 2.6.35 i > have > > given initramfs.cpio path of 2.6.28 and compiled the kernel. > > > > But in 2.6.35/usr/ I dont have initramfs (which contain the init and > other > > files required to device bootup) filesystem which is present in 2.6.28 > > > > So I copied the finitramfs to 2.6.35/usr/ and again compiled. but no luck > > with that image as well. > > > > Do I need to create initramfs for this kernel or have to found way to > > create the initramfs.cpio so that I can boot the kernel without the > 2.6.28 > > initramfs.cpio? > > Let's back track a little. > initramfs-tools is a standard tool in any base install. I am surprised that > it > is missing. > It means that your install is possibly not ok. What distro do you use? > My comments are solely for debian (and should be valid for it's > derivatives). > > Install initramfs-tools the proper way using apt or aptitude. > > If you need any module which is not compiled into the kernel until you can > mount root, then you definetly need initramfs. Otherwise you dont. > Framebuffer (usually) comes much later, so you maynot require initramfs to > reach a shell. > > > ( I dont have clue how can I generate the file.) > > man update-initramfs > > -- > http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers > -- ** _________________________ Pravinkumar Chavan Software Engineer +919867107370 ** *_________________________* * * -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
