[BusyBox] ramdisk howto

Frank frannk_m1 at yahoo.com
Fri Sep 24 17:23:55 UTC 2004


--- "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at mindspring.com> wrote:

> 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

I got it, thanks...

> 



	
		
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