[BusyBox] making some progress with "minit", but "genext2fs" is the villain now

[Manuel Novoa III]

On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 09:08:20AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>   booted again -- same error.  hmmm ... boot again with regular init,
> and notice that the FIFOs are missing.  track it down to the "genext2fs"
> utility, which didn't copy them over and, more to the point, it doesn't
> look like it's capable of doing that.
> 
>   while genext2fs supports a "spec" file that lets you list which device
> files you want to add to the resulting filesystem that genext2fs is
> building for you, the source suggests it can handle only "d", "b" and "c"
> files.  no "p".  (this is in the add2fs_from_file() routine in 
> genext2fs.c).
> 
>   so, at this point, i'm kind of stuck, not knowing how to cram those 
> FIFOs into the root filesystem via "genext2fs" so i can build my 
> downloadable image.  dang.

You might want to look at
http://uclibc.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/buildroot/sources/genext2fs.patch

Manuel