I've been enjoying Armedslack on my Sheeva for a while so I've decided to put it on my Seagate Dockstar (a stripped down Sheeva) too. This presents a few challenges that I think I can overcome with a little help:
DockStar's u-Boot is crippled, so I use it to chainload a better u-Boot which I have flashed to mtd3. Even the mtd3 u-Boot can't boot an initrd, though, which brings me to my dilemma: I would like to use the u-Boot mkimage utility to meld the Slackware kernel and installer initrd into a single file so my mtd3 u-Boot can boot it from a USB stick. However, I need to alter the installer initrd first (to automatically run dhcpcd and dropbear, as the Dockstar has no serial console). I've tried to extract the initrd with gunzip and cpio; no luck. What format is the Armedslack installer initrd in, and how do I extract it? Once I can do this, I believe I can repackage it with mkinitrd and go from there. Thanks in advance for any tips and info... ___ /yler _______________________________________________ ARMedslack mailing list [email protected] http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack
