[Buildroot] Unable to bake in an initramfs filesystem into kernel image

Peter Korsgaard peter at korsgaard.com
Fri Aug 28 20:38:42 UTC 2020


>>>>> "Arnout" == Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout at mind.be> writes:

Hi,

 >> so not sure what is going on here. Do I need to pass in a kernel command
 >> line to make sure the kernel reads the initramfs from the one baked in?

 >  Nope, it should automatically do that. However, it is possible that the
 > embedded initramfs is ignored if your bootloader provides one, so make sure the
 > initramfs argument of uboot's boot command is not set.


 >  I've taken a quick look at the history since 2016.10 and I didn't find anything
 > that would fix such an issue.

 >  That said, we don't have a runtime test of this feature, so it might even be
 > broken...

FYI, I've just tested the initramfs support on current master (on an ARM
platform) and it works as expected.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard



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