RamDisk

Matt Porter porter at cox.net
Fri Sep 13 08:08:55 EST 2002


On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 12:29:35AM +0530, Aman wrote:
>
> Hi All
>
> I am using a PPC 440 evaluation Kit with openbios as the monitor code. I
> have successfully download kernel image using the NFS. Now I want to create
> a RAMDISK for the PPC 440. After which I want to download the RAMDISK and
> the kernel image to the RAM. My question is, using the monitor
> code(OpenBios), is it possible to download both the image ie RAMDISK and
> Kernel image to the RAM.

Put your compressed ramdisk image in arch/ppc/boot/images/ramdisk.image.gz
and make the zImage.initrd target.  The resulting zImage.initrd.ebony
has the compressed ramdisk image linked in.

Regards,
--
Matt Porter
porter at cox.net
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