[BusyBox] ramdisk howto

Robert P. J. Day rpjday at mindspring.com
Fri Sep 24 09:44:15 UTC 2004


On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Frank wrote:

> I am now booting my kernel with BusyBox root filesystem over NFS. I 
> want to create a ramdisk image and boot from flash, but can't seem 
> to find a target in the makefile to do this. is ther a FAQ or some 
> documentation for BusyBox that expalins the procedure to create a 
> bootable BusyBox ram disk image?

i'm pretty sure that busybox itself doesn't have a target for creating 
a ramdisk image, i'm pretty sure that's your job.

personally, i build my intended root filesystem and use "genext2fs" to 
turn it into an EXT2 filesystem, which i use as the basis of my 
initrd.

rday



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