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[ts-7000] initramfs 2.6.19 on TS7250

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Subject: [ts-7000] initramfs 2.6.19 on TS7250
From: "siddh_c" <>
Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 05:49:54 -0000
Hi,

I have been unable to boot with initramfs on TS7250 :( I read up a
couple of posts and also some howtos on initramfs but still get the
kernel VFS panic! Here is what I've done so far:

- Downloaded an armimage.tar rootfs from one of the links found in
this group. 

- Just to confirm that the image is for arm, ran `file
armimage/bin/busybox` command which says busybox is ELF ARM, so I
guess the image is ok. Also it seems to have all the important dirs in
place. There is no file in / by name init though. I read somewhere
that Linux needs to execute this in case of initramfs, but it can be
overridden with init=/bin/sh option given as kernel command line. 

- Created a file called initramfs_data.cpio.gz using the following
command from the armimage directory: 
find . | cpio -o -H ../newc | gzip > ../initramfs_data_cpio.gz

- Replaced the $KERNEL_SRC/usr/initramfs_data.cpio.gz with the one
generated above.

- Compile the kernel with make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux- . Is
there any other target given to make so that initramfs is included in
the kernel ? 

- Load zImage via tftp 

- Boot with the following option
exec -c "console=ttyAM0,115200 init=/bin/sh"

- When I boot, I get the kernel panic:
 "No filesystem could mount root, tried:  ext3 ext2 vfat             
            
Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on
unknown-block(31,1)" 

Any ideas what I am missing here ? I am using a debian host.

thanks,
-siddharth




 
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