Re: initrd.img - creating a init ramdisk by hand
On Friday 12 March 2010, Richard Lamboj wrote:
> i need to create an init ramdisk for booting over the network. I'am
> working on an Project to manage Servers, Vservers, Clients and Services
> over the Network and one part is an init ramdisk wich will install disk
> images on the clients to place linux and windows installs on Desktop
> Systems.
This mailing list is about development of the Debian Installation system
and your question does not really seem related to that. A better place to
ask would have been the debian-user list.
> I have tried ext2 Images and cpio Images. They don't work. Could not
> exec init or linuxrc. So it would by nice if someone could give me
> informations about boulding an ramdisk.
That said, have a look at
http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/d-i/trunk/installer/build/Makefile
Look for "# Create a compressed image of the root filesystem". You'll find
examples of commands to create initrds using various formats.
The $(xxxxx) macros that are used are defined near the beginning of the
same file.
Cheers,
FJP
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