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From: Matt Sealey <matt@genesi-usa•com>
To: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail•com>
Cc: Sven Luther <sven@genesi-usa•com>, linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs•org
Subject: Re: Efika, initrd and current kernel
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 17:22:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46FFCD35.3000105@genesi-usa.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9e4733910709300728p1f1a2c87vad38a2b047da54e0@mail.gmail.com>

How did you attach the initrd to the kernel?

Compiled in using the initramfs feature, or did you use mkvmlinuz (debian/ubuntu)
or mkzImage (suse) or have genkernel build it (--genzimage) on Gentoo? It looks
like you're trying to boot Gentoo from the boot line..

-- 
Matt Sealey <matt@genesi-usa•com>
Genesi, Manager, Developer Relations

Jon Smirl wrote:
> On 9/30/07, Sven Luther <sven@genesi-usa•com> wrote:
>> On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 10:09:47AM -0400, Jon Smirl wrote:
>>> On 9/30/07, Matt Sealey <matt@genesi-usa•com> wrote:
>>>> How did you build the kernel?
>>> I attached the .config
>>> Am I supposed to have both chrp and efika selected?
>> I think so, yes.
> 
> I have then both selected.
> 
> I'm sure it is something simple about how I have my kernel configured
> wrong but I can't figure out what it is. I have BLK_INITRD turned on.
> I can trace in the initrd code and see that it is exiting because
> strat_initrd is not set. start_initrd is set in the platform specfic
> code which I haven't figured out yet.
> 
> 
>> Friendly,
>>
>> Sven Luther
>>
> 
> 

      reply	other threads:[~2007-09-30 16:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-30  5:05 Efika, initrd and current kernel Jon Smirl
2007-09-30 10:29 ` Matt Sealey
2007-09-30 14:09   ` Jon Smirl
2007-09-30 14:19     ` Sven Luther
2007-09-30 14:28       ` Jon Smirl
2007-09-30 16:22         ` Matt Sealey [this message]

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