How to make ramdisk ?

[Amit D Chaudhary]

Look at Documentation/ramdisk.txt in the kernel source tree for details.

Amit


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> ³×Æ®¿öÅ©Hi
>
> 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
> =================================================================
> .
> .
> 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
> =================================================================
>
> 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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