In message <040944A92C91D211954D00C095EE82680168FF32 at POST> you wrote: > > sorry for this question, but it's the first time I try to use linux on my
It's a good question, but it has been asked many, many times before. See http://penguinppc.org/usr/embedded/howto/PowerPC-Embedded-HOWTO-13.html#ss13.2 and http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/Bootdisk-HOWTO/buildroot.html > I'm using PPCBoot and the MontaVista kernel. Both work fine, but I don't > know how to make a initrd image. See "Documentation/initrd.txt" in your Linux source directory. > Can someone give me a short overwiew on how to build such an image and what > files should be included? You include those files you need in your embedded system. The minimum (without any tricks and modifications to the Linux kernel) is a special file for /dev/console (c 5 1) and a regular file with your statically linked application that is started as init process. See ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/LinuxPPC/usr/src/SIMPLE-PPCBOOT-ramdisk for an example - this is a PPCBoot image ready for use; you can use dd if=SIMPLE-PPCBOOT-ramdisk bs=64 skip=1 of=ramdisk.image.gz to create a "normal" ramdisk image. Wolfgang Denk -- Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtime Systems, Embedded Linux Phone: (+49)-8142-4596-87 Fax: (+49)-8142-4596-88 Email: wd at denx.de "There are three principal ways to lose money: wine, women, and engi- neers. While the first two are more pleasant, the third is by far the more certain." - Baron Rothschild, ca. 1800 ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
