Hi Eric
My plan is indeed to load the packages from an ext2 fs ..
So what I did was the following:
initrd.lrp
initrd.lrp is a different package - it's a compressed, minix formatted
filesystem. To add or change it's content you have to uncompress it and mount
it on a minix formatted mount point:
dd if=/dev/zero of=initrd bs=1k count=1500
mkfs.minix initrd 4096
mount -t minix initrd /mnt -o loop
Copy the contents for the initrd package to the /mnt directory:
this is the ext2.o file
sync
umount /mnt
gzip -9 initrd
mv initrd.gz initrd.lrp
then when I try to start the machine to see if everything still works I
get this error:
Warning : unable to open an initial console.
Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to Kernel.
*and everything hangs*
ps: it's still on a fat filesystem .. but that's still inside the
initrd normally so it shouldn't make any difference
Tom
Citeren Eric Spakman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hello Tom,
>
> It depend on your needs. If you want to load the packages from an ext2 fs,
> you have to create your own initrd:
> http://leaf.sourceforge.net/doc/bucd-develop.xml.html#id3256747
>
> But if you just want to use an ext2 fs from a running system, you can add
> the module to moddb (copy the module to /lib/modules), no need to put it
> in the initrd in that case.
>
> Eric
>
>
>> One other question, which I fear is a dumb one .. But I can't find it
>> anywhere To install the ext2 module .. You have to put it in
>> /boot/lib/modules
>> and then declare it initrd through the LEAF Packages configuration menu..
>> Well, I see it nowhere in the menu, and I've been through each part of
>> it..
>>
>> also afterwarts when I should save it , pressing m only saves the
>> moddb.lrp .. So how save it afterwarts?
>>
>> Thx, Tom
>>
>>
>>
>> Citeren Tom Hendrickx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>>
>>
>>> Hi Erich
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks a lot and also to Eric!
>>> The problem was indeed with the ext2 module not being loaded yet :$
>>> So now I'm just going to use one partition ext2 to do the trick ..
>>>
>>>
>>> While checking the different filesystems in the available modules, I
>>> noticed however there's no support for YAFFS nor for JFFS2 .. Is this one
>>> day gonna change? To make the flash drives more durable..
>>>
>>> Or is it possible to give some extra parameters to the system with
>>> ext2, to make it more durable in this way?
>>>
>>> Greetz,
>>>
>>>
>>> Tom
>>>
>>>
>>> Citeren Erich Titl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hi Tom
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Tom Hendrickx wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> a few weeks ago I got the leaf system working , but I had put
>>>>> everything on the first "msdos" partition .. To make it a bit more
>>>>> endurable, I would like to put as much as possible on the second
>>>>> partition, where I thought to use YAFFS.
>>>>>
>>>>> Has someone allready some experience with this and/or remarks to
>>>>> it?
>>>>
>>>> When I built cups for leaf I needed some persistent storage. I used a
>>>> 4 Gig CF with ext2 filesystem. As I needed to have ext2 anyway I
>>>> decided then to go the whole distance and format all partitions on the
>>>> CF with ext2. No trouble at all. I suggest though to also load
>>>> the hdsupp package and to run fsck periodically on the partitions.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> cheers
>>>>
>>>> Erich
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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