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From: thewalthamgroup@netscape•net (Mark Phillips)
To: walser.martin@rw•hirschmann.at
Cc: linuxppc-embedded@lists•linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: what files should be included in initrd
Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 09:44:13 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <18C697C2.78FCC6BB.C7F6CBA8@netscape.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 040944A92C91D211954D00C095EE82680168FF32@POST


Walser,

In my opinion, the best source for this is the Bootdisk-Howto, available everywhere (for example http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Bootdisk-HOWTO/)
You should skip the "ldconfig" step.
You should also refer to Initrd.txt in the Documentation subdirectory of your kernel.

Mark Phillips

Walser Martin <walser.martin@rw•hirschmann.at> wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> sorry for this question, but it's the first time I try to use linux on my
> custom board.
> I'm using PPCBoot and the MontaVista kernel. Both work fine, but I don't
> know how to make a initrd image.
>
> Can someone give me a short overwiew on how to build such an image and what
> files should be included?
>
> thanks
> Martin
>
>
>
>

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2001-05-09 13:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-05-09  5:49 what files should be included in initrd Walser Martin
2001-05-09  7:02 ` Wolfgang Denk
2001-05-09 13:44 ` Mark Phillips [this message]

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