You haven't build your root file system. I believe we give path to root file system in CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE. There are different ways to build root file system, like buildroot. http://buildroot.uclibc.org/ -Rahul B. On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 3:01 PM, stl <st.lambert02@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Thanks for your answer. > > Ok, here is what I have exactly done: > > - compiled with my uClibc cross-compiler a simple hello world program. > - written a basic config file in linux-2.6.37/usr, creating a dev/console, a > /init from /usr/hello and some other dirs. > - edited the .config file with CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE = > ......./usr/config_file and selected CONFIG_INITRAMFS_COMPRESSION_GZIP=y > - built the kernel > - launched vmlinux and received the "kernel panic: junk in compressed > archive" error message > > In the source code, initrd_start ans initrd_end appears. > if i want to use initramfs support (and not initrd support), should I do > something special in "setup_arch()" in order to initialize these symbols? > > thakns in advance _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
