[OLPC-devel] status with linuxbios and currnet and marcelo's boot code and jordan's kernel

[Ronald G Minnich]

Dan Williams wrote:

> I believe there are some gzip issues with compressing the initrd in the
> current images that are posted that we're trying to work out.  Something
> with cpio not creating the right image format.

yes, things are kind of fouled up in the initrd/initramfs world. Here is 
how I am building an initramfs image that works:
root_dir is an image of a root file system.

cd root_dir
find . | cpio --create --format=newc > ../initramfs_data.cpio
cd ..
gzip -9 initramfs_data.cpio

This is working. It is what I used with jordan's 2.6.17 kernel to boot 
from flash under linuxbios. It finds the sda1 just fine and has no 
trouble mounting it so it can boot the kernel on the usb key.

Note this is a compressed cpio image. In some cases, right now, ext2 
initrd images are not working at all.

If you can send me the .config you used for that kernel on OLPC (i.e. 
vmlinuz-2.6.16-1.2289_FC6) I would like to try to build jordan's kernel 
with it. That I know is able to deal with the usb dongle I have.

Are people really booting this image with qemu? It won't boot for me 
(same error)

thanks
ron