[android-porting] Re: How to use initramfs for root filesystem?

2009-02-13 Thread Peter Oh
Subject: [android-porting] Re: How to use initramfs for root filesystem? [Peter Oh p...@innopath.com] Thank you a lot for your reply. Now I'm almost clear except this one. If I assume that I have initramfs file as the name of 'ramdisk.img' Yup. ramdisk.img is a gzip'd cpio image. How

[android-porting] Re: How to use initramfs for root filesystem?

2009-02-13 Thread Brian Swetland
Subject: [android-porting] Re: How to use initramfs for root filesystem? When booting with initramfs, the kernel creates a tmpfs at /, unpacking the initramfs (typically a gzip'd cpio archive) into it. Then it runs /init (I believe there is actually a short list of programs it tries

[android-porting] Re: How to use initramfs for root filesystem?

2009-02-11 Thread Peter Oh
regards. Peter Oh -Original Message- From: android-porting@googlegroups.com [mailto:android-port...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Brian Swetland Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 12:28 AM To: android-porting@googlegroups.com Subject: [android-porting] Re: How to use initramfs for root

[android-porting] Re: How to use initramfs for root filesystem?

2009-02-11 Thread Rizvan S
@googlegroups.com [mailto: android-port...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Brian Swetland Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 12:28 AM To: android-porting@googlegroups.com Subject: [android-porting] Re: How to use initramfs for root filesystem? When booting with initramfs, the kernel creates a tmpfs

[android-porting] Re: How to use initramfs for root filesystem?

2009-02-11 Thread Brian Swetland
. Peter Oh -Original Message- From: android-porting@googlegroups.com [mailto:android-port...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Brian Swetland Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 12:28 AM To: android-porting@googlegroups.com Subject: [android-porting] Re: How to use initramfs for root