initrd


I finally got a rootfs working with the kernel tonight.  It’s a minimal rootfs built with buildroot and busybox but it boots up to a shell prompt and does just enough work to make sure ps displays the process list.  Whoopeeeee!!! Now, don’t get crazy here.  This is just booting […]

BeagleBox Milestone: the board boots with BeagleBox software!


This weekend I buckled down and merged the BeagleBoard validation images kernel configuration into my BeagleBox kernel configuration.  When I booted the resulting kernel with the validation images ramdisk image it worked.  Unfortunately, because there were a fair number of changes to merge in it isn’t clear exactly which ones […]

BeagleBox: kernel boots initrd, initramfs still doesn’t work