[Buildroot] Booting new kernels

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Sun May 18 08:19:12 UTC 2014


Dear Tal Lubko,

On Sat, 17 May 2014 11:55:17 -0700 (PDT), Tal Lubko wrote:

> I took yours and Gene's advices and  looked again at the kernel configuration.
> For some reason, starting from kernel 3.7.1, "RAM block device support" is turned off by default.
> I think its mandatory for me because I use initrd. Now I'm going to try a newer kernel (3.14.3).
> I think I'll go and read about the boot sequence to understand it a little bit better.

Glad to see you figured out what the problem was.

I think you should have a look at using initramfs instead, it's much
more memory efficient than initrd.

Best regards,

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
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