Re: [ARMedslack] A few questions on kirkwood initrd

2010-07-28 Thread Tyler T
Update: the 'mtd3' chained-bootloader that I'm using is from http://www.plugapps.com/index.php5?title=PlugApps:Pogoplug_Setboot so I examined the kernel it ships with using 'mkimage -l' and it's Load Address is the same as Armedslack's, 8000. This works because upon closer examination, the stoc

Re: [ARMedslack] A few questions on kirkwood initrd

2010-07-28 Thread Andrzej Telszewski
On 07/28/2010 07:00 PM, Tyler T wrote: >> By the way, I used the extracted initrd to install Armedslack on my >> > SD/MMC based system and there was no problem (I extracted initrd to the >> > MMC card and booted it as my system has to little RAM to use initrd >> > directly). > That's clever. If I c

Re: [ARMedslack] A few questions on kirkwood initrd

2010-07-28 Thread Tyler T
>> Unfortunately, the Dockstar won't finish booting the resulting image > > It could be because the installer image is too large to fit in RAM, or > into the addresses into which you're loading it. I think you're right. We're getting into stuff I don't know much about, but: # mkimage -l uImageIns

Re: [ARMedslack] A few questions on kirkwood initrd

2010-07-28 Thread Stuart Winter
> > One time I got this instructions from Stuart on how to extract initrd: > > dd if=armedslack-current/isolinux/uinitrd-kirkwood.img  bs=64 skip=1 | > > gzip -dc | cpio -div > > Ah, that worked, thank you! The initrd for kirkwood is in "u-boot" format - it was made with u-boot's "mkimage". The s