Per my other question, did you try to burn a totally standard coreboot and see it work?
On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 10:39 AM Healer64 <heale...@protonmail.com> wrote: > An auron yuna chromebook. > > > Sent with ProtonMail <https://protonmail.com> Secure Email. > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: [coreboot] kernel payload > Local Time: May 5, 2017 11:18 AM > UTC Time: May 5, 2017 5:18 PM > From: rminn...@gmail.com > To: Healer64 <heale...@protonmail.com>, coreboot@coreboot.org < > coreboot@coreboot.org> > > First off, what board is this on? > > On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 10:12 AM Healer64 via coreboot < > coreboot@coreboot.org> wrote: > >> I've looked through all the docs I can find on this, but there doesn't >> seem to be much available. Hopefully some of you can help answer my >> questions. My distribution includes a vmlinuz kernel. Do I need to compile >> a custom bzimage kernel or will the stock kernel suffice? >> >> I am using lvm on a dmcrypted disk for the root filesystem. Presumably >> these binaries and helper scripts will be needed in the initrd. So far the >> only help I've seen on creating the initrd for the payload is Ron's email >> to this list where he says >> >> "Your best bet is to do the standard trivial initramfs with a simple >> program: main(){printf("hi\n"); while (1);} Let's pretend it's called >> mymain.c cc -o mymain -static mymain.c put that in your prototype root file >> system with the name init. make sure you create /dev/console. Then bundle >> it all up with cpio and you've got an initramfs" >> >> That seems to describe more of a shim than a true initrd. Also he >> mentions initramfs whereas menuconfig asks for initrd. Which is correct? I >> don't see any reference to filesystem drivers in Ron's email, but surely >> they are required to mount the root. I'm guessing this is a test example >> that is not intended to boot. >> >> Can anyone provide help or instructions on an actual bootable >> initrd/initramfs? Can a pointer to the initramfs in /boot be used? What >> kind of size will it be? My rom is limited to 8Mb and the kernel is over >> 5Mb. >> >> >> Sent with ProtonMail <https://protonmail.com> Secure Email. >> >> -- >> coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org >> https://mail.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot >> >
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