how to use busybox to make a ramdisk?

[Brian Padalino]

John,

I kind of cheated and used the DENX ELDK (http://www.denx.de) ramdisk that
came with his stuff (mainly for the /dev entries).

But there is also a good tutorial on how to create ramdisk images.

http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/Bootdisk-HOWTO/buildroot.html

The only thing that I do differently is that I use a loopback device like
so:
  mount -t ext2 filename /mnt/image -o loop
This stops mount from complaining to me and I like that.

Hope this helps and good luck!

Cheers,
Brian Padalino


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:owner-linuxppc-embedded at lists.linuxppc.org]On Behalf Of John
Zhou
Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 5:54 AM
To: linuxppc-embedded at lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: how to use busybox to make a ramdisk?



Hi all,

I want to get some detail documents about how to use busybox to make a
ramdisk!!  Does anybody know? Is it to use mkinitrd ?

Thanks & Regards
John Zhou


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