[Buildroot] Creating initrd

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Dear Chris Wilkinson,

On Thu, 11 Oct 2012 10:05:03 -0400, Chris Wilkinson wrote:
> I haven't been able to figure out how to get BR to create an initial
> ramdisk.
> 
> I selected initramfs in Filesystem images. What I end up with is
> 
> -rw-r--r-- 1 chrisw chrisw 38356992 Oct 11 09:00 rootfs.cpio
> -rw-r--r-- 1 chrisw chrisw 13666196 Oct 11 09:00 rootfs.cpio.gz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 chrisw chrisw 48346112 Oct 11 09:00 rootfs.ext2
> -rw-r--r-- 1 chrisw chrisw 13990321 Oct 11 09:00 rootfs.ext2.gz
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 chrisw chrisw  1422576 Oct 11 09:01 zImage
> 
> There is no initrd and the rootfs is way too big for flash.

Forget about initrd, nobody uses that anymore.

Can you post your entire .config?

Thanks,

Thomas
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