[Angstrom-devel] initramfs disappearing during kernel build: Solved

2008-03-08 Thread Koen Kooi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, This morning I sat down and looked at why the initramfs kernels fail to include an initramfs. I finally found out what is wrong. The kernel shows the following output: ~ GEN usr/initramfs_data.cpio.gz after which the initramfs is only 4kB

Re: [Angstrom-devel] initramfs disappearing during kernel build: Solved

2008-03-08 Thread Andrea Adami
Now we only need Thomas and Paul to combine their initramfs efforts to get one kickass initramfs for all machines with sucky bootloaders. Yes, and in the meanwhile please add an RFC for linux-rp initramfs implementation path. I think we should focus on some potential issues, because

Re: [Angstrom-devel] initramfs disappearing during kernel build: Solved

2008-03-08 Thread Andrea Adami
message got somehow truncated... On 3/8/08, Andrea Adami [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now we only need Thomas and Paul to combine their initramfs efforts to get one kickass initramfs for all machines with sucky bootloaders. Yes, and in the meanwhile please add an RFC for linux-rp initramfs

Re: [Angstrom-devel] initramfs disappearing during kernel build: Solved

2008-03-08 Thread Paul Sokolovsky
Hello, On Sat, 08 Mar 2008 11:24:02 +0100 Koen Kooi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, This morning I sat down and looked at why the initramfs kernels fail to include an initramfs. I finally found out what is wrong. The kernel shows the

Re: [Angstrom-devel] initramfs disappearing during kernel build: Solved

2008-03-08 Thread Koen Kooi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Sokolovsky schreef: | Hello, | | On Sat, 08 Mar 2008 11:24:02 +0100 | Koen Kooi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- | Hash: SHA1 | | Hi, | | This morning I sat down and looked at why the initramfs kernels fail | to

Re: [Angstrom-devel] initramfs disappearing during kernel build: Solved

2008-03-08 Thread Paul Sokolovsky
Hello, On Sat, 08 Mar 2008 16:00:57 +0100 Koen Kooi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Sokolovsky schreef: | Hello, | | On Sat, 08 Mar 2008 11:24:02 +0100 | Koen Kooi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- | Hash:

Re: [Angstrom-devel] initramfs disappearing during kernel build: Solved

2008-03-08 Thread Thomas Kunze
First, let me state that we should aim to get the bootmenu image to be as small as possible (~100kB), regardless of which route we go with the above options. With that said, I think for the zaurus we should do: a) angelboot - zImage + kexec - zImage + bootmenu in flash - rootfs or b)

Re: [Angstrom-devel] initramfs disappearing during kernel build: Solved

2008-03-08 Thread Paul Sokolovsky
Hello, On Sat, 8 Mar 2008 17:28:46 +0200 Paul Sokolovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [] Of course, just cp should not preserve timestamp, but set current time on the dest file! cp -a is what preserves timestamps and other stuff. If you think that your cp's behavior is anyhow grounded, please

Re: [Angstrom-devel] initramfs disappearing during kernel build: Solved

2008-03-08 Thread Koen Kooi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thomas Kunze schreef: | First, let me state that we should aim to get the bootmenu image to be | as small as possible (~100kB), regardless of which route we go with the | above options. | | With that said, I think for the zaurus we should do: | | a)