[Buildroot] Creating a filesystem for QEMU

Chris Packham judge.packham at gmail.com
Fri Nov 13 14:03:28 UTC 2009


On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 8:57 AM, Lionel Landwerlin
<llandwerlin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > Making use of qemus ability to replace the bootloader you can invoke
>>> > qemu with
>>> >     qemu -kernel output/images/bzImage \
>>> >          -initrd output/images/rootfs.i686.cpio
>>
>> Shouldn't be the cpio image gunzipped ? :
>
> I mean gzipped of course...

Unzipped works for me. The cpio target makes 2 files. rootfs.ARCH.cpio
and rootfs.ARCH.cpio.gz.
I just tried the .gz file and that works too.


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