On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 13:54, Alan Dayley wrote:
> Liberty Young said:
> > I'm having trouble making a bootable, working initrd image
> >
> > Right now, I can get everything working just fine by:
> >
> > making an initrd image using busybox and my own /linuxrc script. The
> > script inserts some USB modules, pivot_root's to a USB thumbdrive, and
> > then exec chroot . sbin/init <dev/console >dev/console
> >
> > bootloader boots up, and passes to the kernel the arguments
> > root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc
> >
> >
> > This works...however, since linuxrc isn't being exited and passing
> > control to the thumb-driver's sbin/init, the memory never gets freed!
> >
> > I am unable to pass to the kernel
> > "initrd=initrd.gz", and have it find the ramdisk's /linuxrc, do the
> > magic, and then exit 0, which _should_ have the kernel invoke the new
> > root's sbin/init.
> >
> > Anybody have any ideas?!?
>
> Liberty,
>
> I, for one, was taken aback by your direct dive into technical details.
> Suddenly we were discussing a USB thumbdrive! Could you perhaps give a
> little higher view as an introduction to the details? What is the overall
> goal? What is the platform and evironment?
>
> Alan
>
>
I'm trying to get an embedded arm board (boot-loader is Redboot) to boot
to a USB thumbdrive (which has debian on it).
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