[klibc] initramfs gunzip problems.

Martin Hicks mort at wildopensource.com
Fri Nov 14 13:32:07 PST 2003


On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 12:57, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 09:38, Martin Hicks wrote:
> 
> > I'm building the archive by hand and then specify it on the command line
> > with initrd=
> > 
> > cd rootfs
> > find . | cpio -H newcrc -o > ../initramfs.cpio
> > cd ..
> > gzip -9 initramfs.cpio
> 
> I see.  I've never tested that mechanism of doing things, so I don't
> know what you might be seeing.  I do know that built-in initramfs works
> fine.

Ah, okay.  I guess there are some lingering bugs in the initrd= handling
of initramfs.

I try my initramfs in built-in mode later today.

thanks
mh

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