Re: need some clarifications concerning rootf mounting

2012-08-20 Thread Rahul Bedarkar
You haven't build your root file system. I believe we give path to root file system in CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE. There are different ways to build root file system, like buildroot. http://buildroot.uclibc.org/ -Rahul B. On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 3:01 PM, stl st.lamber...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks

Re: need some clarifications concerning rootf mounting

2012-08-16 Thread stl
Thanks for your answer. Ok, here is what I have exactly done: - compiled with my uClibc cross-compiler a simple hello world program. - written a basic config file in linux-2.6.37/usr, creating a dev/console, a /init from /usr/hello and some other dirs. - edited the .config file with

Re: need some clarifications concerning rootf mounting

2012-08-14 Thread Rahul Bedarkar
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 3:45 PM, stl st.lamber...@gmail.com wrote: I have dug a little more, and if I well understand, the initramfs_data.cpio.gz should be expanded from __initramfs_start (defined in vmlinux.lds.S) But when and how is it done? And by who? Architecture specific code?

need some clarifications concerning rootf mounting

2012-08-08 Thread stl
Hello all, I need some explanations concerning the ways to mount rootf during boot. I have read some documents (notably the very useful How to use initramfs by Rob Landley) and dug into the source code, but some doubts remain. If I well understood, there is 2 differents procedures to mount the