On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 03:42:04PM -0800, Ed Martini wrote: > I'm trying to get 2.6.11 to run on a MIPS Malta board with Yamon. The > kernel that comes with the board is 2.4.18 with an embedded ramdisk that > runs some scripts to install RPMS via NFS or CD-ROM. The kernel is > converted to s-records via objcopy(1), and loaded into memory via tftp. > I want to do something similar with 2.6.latest. > > Problem: > > On or about Nov 21 of last year, the CONFIG_EMBEDDED_RAMDISK disappeared. > > http://www.linux-mips.org/archives/linux-mips/2004-11/msg00135.html > > In it's place it is suggested to use the tools in arch/mips/boot, so I > tried it. I can cross-compile the kernel, and I get an ELF vmlinux. I > can convert it to ecoff with elf2ecoff, and attach an initrd image with > addinitrd. The problem begins here. I end up with an ecoff format > kernel which is not recognized by objcopy(1), and therefore no s-records. I guess that was an act of desperation - YAMON needs SRECs to be happy but doesn't know anything about SRECs. > It seems there is a program called gensrec that would do the job, but > google doesn't want to tell me where to get it. Some IRIX binary perhaps? make vmlinux.srec; the resulting file will be in arch/mips/boot/vmlinux.srec. > Should I put CONFIG_EMBEDDED_RAMDISK and its ilk back into my kernel, or > write an ELF version of addinitrd? Other ideas? Things vanish for a reason ... Try CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE instead. Ralf
