[ts-7000] 2.6.34 on TS7300 without NFS - what am I doing wrong?

["andreas queisser" <>]

Hi all,

I rebuilt 2.6.34 + Matt's patches and used the ts72xx_eabi_small config file. I 
changed the kernel command line to boot from /dev/ram0 and use /linuxrc. 

I see that Ian T. has gotten something similar to work from this post:

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ts-7000/message/18419

I seem to have a problem with my initrd. When the kernel goes to unpack the ram 
disk I get this error:

    Unpacking initramfs...
    Initramfs unpacking failed: junk in compressed archive
    Freeing initrd memory: 4096K

and later the kernel panic:

    Root-NFS: No NFS server available, giving up.
    VFS: Unable to mount root fs via NFS, trying floppy.
    VFS: Cannot open root device "ram0" or unknown-block(2,0)
    Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available 
partitions:
    Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 
unknown-block(2,0)




Here's a little detail on my procedure:

1) Use 512mbsd-7400-linux2629-lenny-eabi.dd to create a bootable SD card for 
the 2.6.29 kernel (works)
2) Verify my tools work by rebuilding 2.6.21-ts kernel, writing to the second 
partition and booting that (works)
3) Build patched 2.6.34-ts700_matt_2 kernel with kernel command line to boot 
from /dev/ram0
4) Panic!

I think it must have something to do with a mismatch between the .34 kernel I 
built and the ramdisk image on the SD card. My questions:

- What's the correct procedure to build the initrd image for the patched .34 
kernel?
- Are there other kernel build options I need if I want to boot from SD vs. 
booting from NFS? I enabled ext2 support but I don't think that's the problem.


Thanks,
Andrew





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