Hi...


On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 17:59, Ponmuthu Subramaniam Nandan
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I am trying to learn details of Linux kernel using virtualbox.
>
> I have compiled my kernel for i386_defconfig and with the following values
> set,
>
> (*) CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD=y
>
> (*) CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE="/workspace/tmp/initramfs"
>
> My basic filesystem with busybox utility is created under
> "/workspace/tmp/initramfs" which is given as the value for
> CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE.

I am not trying to divert your study focus, but AFAIK it's easier in
Qemu. Try something like:
qemu -kernel your-kernel-image -initrd your-initramfs

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