Re: [Ltib] How to set up initramfs?

[Stuart Hughes]

Hi Ned,

The Savannah copy of LTIB doesn't yet have initramfs support, that is
pending in the next merge.

In the mean time, can you use ramdisk deployment?

Regard, Stuart

On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 11:38 -0800, Ned Konz wrote:
> I've been using NFS mount for root and now it's time to deploy the  
> image.
> 
> I can't figure out how to set up the kernel config for the initramfs  
> (tmpfs) root file system.
> 
> I had been keeping the stripped root filesystem in rootfs.tmp and  
> tried pointing the source to there, but after a distclean the  
> rootfs.tmp went away.
> 
> Is there an easier way, or am I missing something?
> 
> I don't want to have the whole rootfs, (include files, rpmdb, etc.),  
> and I don't need a filesystem image either.
> 
> I just want to include the root filesystem with the zImage.
> 
> How should I do this?
> 
> 
> 
> 
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