[BusyBox] Re: ramdisk howto (Frank)

Peter S. Mazinger ps.m at gmx.net
Fri Sep 24 19:39:27 UTC 2004


> 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?

download mkinitrd (rpm package or sources from redhat), mkinitrd is a 
shell script, that creates all what you on a ramdisk (it uses a mini shell 
called nash specially written for initrd)
It is not the same as debian's package (the last time I checked)

Peter

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