Failing to boot busybox inside initramfs

Christian Gmeiner christian.gmeiner at gmail.com
Wed Apr 6 09:29:40 UTC 2011


2011/4/6  <alexander.griesser at lkh-vil.or.at>:
> Hello there,
>
> how large is your initramfs? I had issues like that with the initramfs file being bigger than 64MBs.
>

Hi Alex,

I think that this should not be the problem....

~/kernel/linux-2.6.36.4$ ls usr/initramfs_data.* -lh
-rw-r--r-- 1 christian christian 478K 2011-04-05 13:18 usr/initramfs_data.bz2.o
-rw-rw-r-- 1 christian christian 1.0K 2011-02-18 00:14 usr/initramfs_data.bz2.S
-rw-r--r-- 1 christian christian 477K 2011-04-05 13:18
usr/initramfs_data.cpio.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 christian christian 494K 2011-04-04 13:48
usr/initramfs_data.cpio.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 christian christian 494K 2011-04-04 13:48 usr/initramfs_data.gz.o
-rw-rw-r-- 1 christian christian 1023 2011-02-18 00:14 usr/initramfs_data.gz.S
-rw-rw-r-- 1 christian christian 1.1K 2011-02-18 00:14 usr/initramfs_data.lzma.S
-rw-rw-r-- 1 christian christian 1.0K 2011-02-18 00:14 usr/initramfs_data.lzo.S
-rw-rw-r-- 1 christian christian 1021 2011-02-18 00:14 usr/initramfs_data.S


I will try what qemu does...

greets
--
Christian Gmeiner, MSc


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