Re: [iPAQ] dual booting familiar with 3670 and an IBM Microdrive

Is there someone out there who could flesh out each of these steps, so that
a non-Guru might be able to succeed building the initrd and zImage files?

Len M.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Goetz Bock" <bock_at_blacknet.de>
To: <ipaq_at_handhelds.org>
Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 9:27 AM
Subject: Re: [iPAQ] dual booting familiar with 3670 and an IBM Microdrive

> On Mon, Jan 13 '03 at 09:23, Len Moskowitz wrote:
> > If anyone knows how to create an initrd file, please post them! (Goetz
> > posted the process for making a zImage file -- see the above Wiki page.)
> You need:
> - CVS
> - a arm crosscompiler, able to build the current kernel
> - a linux box with kernel 2.4.x
>
> What todo:
> - get my initrd (from linux.blacknet.de/iaq)
> - get the kernel sources for kernel-2.4.18-rmk2_hh21 from CVS (or what
> ever the latest version for v0.6.1 might be)
> - get the proper conifg file for this kernel
> - fix it to include ext2fs in the kernel
> - build the kernel and modules
> - unpack and mount my inird
> - check out /lib/modules for the modules requied, copy this from the
> kernel you just build (make correct subdirectory)
> - remove old modules
> - unmount and pack initrd (you might want to copy it first to a fresh
> image to save some space, if you don't know how to do this, don't
> bother)
> - copy the zimage you builded to your CF card
> - do the same with the initrd
> - get a linux.img for v0.6.1 (or make one)
> - cross your fingers and boot
>
> Success??
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