How to make ramdisk ?

Mon Sep 3 21:19:43 EST 2001

네트워크Hi

I'am trying to Hard Hat linux 1.2  on custom MPC8240 Board
modifying  Sandpointing8240  SDK.
I want to use ramdisk  so I did " make  zImage.initrd"
but there are errors.  followings are error messages
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mlinux:                 59.5% -- replaced with vmlinux.gz
make[2]: Leaving directory `/opt/hardhat/devkit/lsp/motorola-sandpoint/linux-2.4.2_hhl20/arch/ppc/boot/images'
make -C sandpoint zImage.initrd
make[2]: Entering directory `/opt/hardhat/devkit/lsp/motorola-sandpoint/linux-2.4.2_hhl20/arch/ppc/boot/sandpoint'
ppc_82xx-ld -T /opt/hardhat/devkit/lsp/motorola-sandpoint/linux-2.4.2_hhl20/arch/ppc/vmlinux.lds -Ttext 0x00800000 -o zvmlinux.initrd.tmp head.o ../common/misc-common.o ../common/misc-simple.o ../common/ns16550.o ../common/string.o ../lib/zlib.a
ppc_82xx-objcopy -O elf32-powerpc -R .comment \
        --add-section=initrd=../images/ramdisk.image.gz \
        --add-section=image=../images/vmlinux.gz \
        zvmlinux.initrd.tmp zvmlinux.initrd
ppc_82xx-objcopy: cannot stat: ../images/ramdisk.image.gz:  no such file or directory
make[2]: *** [zvmlinux.initrd] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/opt/hardhat/devkit/lsp/motorola-sandpoint/linux-2.4.2_hhl20/arch/ppc/boot/sandpoint'
make[1]: *** [zImage.initrd] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/opt/hardhat/devkit/lsp/motorola-sandpoint/linux-2.4.2_hhl20/arch/ppc/boot'
make: *** [zImage.initrd] Error 2
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Question ]
    At cimpile time, ramdisk.image.gz is needed .

   1) How do I make ramdisk.image.gz ?

Thanks in advance.
                                                DongSeak Yoon

Question ]

   1) Do I have to make ramdisk.image.gz ?
   2) if so , how can I make it  ?

Thanks in advance.
                                                DongSeak Yoon

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