IRC log for #elinux on 20121012

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18:43.31bobboucherHi. Is there anyone familiar with initramfs?
18:47.28mnemocask the real question, and wait..... patiently
18:55.50bobboucherI have an ARM board on which I want to boot load a kernel + file system from NAND flash, but execute everything in RAM.
18:56.23bobboucherI successfully booted a gziped ext2 file system image (with root=/dev/ram0)
18:56.36bobboucherHowever I think using initramfs would be more efficient.
18:59.13bobboucherI can boot with initramfs but it just fails and drop to a shell without populating /dev and starting services.
19:00.05mnemocpopulating /dev is demode. just use devtmpfs
19:02.19bobboucherok I will look into that, however, how do I continue the boot sequence? I can't exec /sbin/init that fails too.
19:05.50bobboucherBasically I want my system to run exactly as the ext2 ram drive, except with no ext2 or root=/dev/ram0 involved. I understand I need a /init script, but what do I put in that script? Would a single exec /sbin/init line work?
19:06.43mnemoclook at switchroot
19:07.20bobboucheryeah but I don't want to switch root. I have everything I need in my rootfs.
19:08.14mnemocyes, making /init exec /sbin/init is common too
19:09.39bobbouchercan I really run switch_root with current root as new root?
19:11.54mnemocno
19:12.04mnemoci didn't read you carefully
19:12.59mnemocswitch_root check that every mouse has been moved away, destroys /, and chroots
19:13.05mnemocs/mouse/mount/
19:17.54bobboucherlet say I have /dev, /sys and /proc mounted. How do I continue booting (start services, bring up network interfaces, etc.)
19:21.46mnemocexec /sbin/init should do that
19:22.03mnemocassuming /sbin/init is a real init
19:22.41bobboucherI tried it and it says process ID must be 1
19:23.28stefan877hi, there is a howto for linux and gdb debugging: http://elinux.org/Debugging_The_Linux_Kernel_Using_Gdb
19:23.56stefan877is it possible to load an uImage instead of vmlinux?
19:24.11stefan877because vmlinux load needs 10 minutes over jtag
19:24.27stefan877uImage load over tftp needs only 20 seconds.
19:25.05stefan877and when debugging with jtag, the registers are not setted (machine number, command line, ...)
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