Re: Can't build flashable image

[ANOOP <anoop.chargotra@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 10:50 PM, Matt Gessner <mgessner@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi, gurus,
>
>  I've been booting my linux arm kernel via NFS, and now want to make it
>  flashable.
>
>  I've set BLK_DEV_INITRD, INITRAMFS_SOURCE to my busybox install image
>  (I even tried on of the ELDK file systems, to no avail).  I set
>  INITRAMFS_ROOT_UID and INITRAMFS_ROOT_GID to 0.
May be this link
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Initramfs#Building_the_initramfs is of
some use for you. I remember I hit similar problem sometimes back.
Then I tried Makefile method to generate initramfs. Finally it worked
for me.

Thanks,
Anoop
>
>  Yet, when I boot, I am told by the kernel that it can't find init,
>  which is a symlink to /bin/busybox.
>
>  I'm not sure if this is the BEST place to ask, but I figured that many
>  of you are doing something very similar, and could tell me if I'm
>  missing a kernel option.
>
>  Thanks in advance,
>
>  Matt Gessner
>
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