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20 years ago

problem with initramfs

hello all friend i have made kernel image with initramfs.i have used nios ide fot it. for intramfs ,i have made rootfs sourse with help of nios (filesystem project). but when i load it on...
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19 years ago

slsnios,

to pick up the original thread,

I had the same problem using the IDE, the archive it produces on Cygwin seems to be corrupted. I use the IDE for Kernel developement, but I have also a Linux machine for compiling applications or libraries.

To bypass the problem of the corrupted archive I create the archive on Linux machine FC4 and include it in the IDE.

In the file linux-2.6.x\usr\initramfs_data.s you must specify the path where your archive resides. In the kernels menuconfig I picked the same path.

On the Linux machine you create the initramfs_data.gpio.gz archive and copy it to the directory from where it should be included.

Whenever you build the kernel in the IDE your archive gets picked instead of the IDEs archive.