Hi!

On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 10:22:38AM +0300, Alexandros C. Couloumbis wrote:
> I've just compiled a fresh freewrt svn for a routerboard 2.4.x kernel.
> I would like to create a netboot image that will contain the rootfs
> system.  What is the proper procedure to do this?

FreeWRT doesn't use an initrd (yet). The rb netboot images are (as the
target name already says) for use with nfs. So you will have to setup
some nfs-share for the rootfs, a tftpd to deliver the kernel and a dhcpd
to put all things together and provide the booting routerboard firmware
(and later the kernel) with the essential information.

> OpenWRT has a ramdisk option on the target selection.
> I understand that there is a different approach for putting
> rootfs on the kernel between 2.6 & 2.4 kernels.

Well, you can still use initrd with kernel 2.6, but the preferred method
is to use initramfs. For documentation on the differences between the
two, read Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt of any
2.6 kernel sources.

Greetings, Phil

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