Building two initramfs images

Building two initramfs images

[Amol Lad]

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Hi,

I want to build two initramfs images when building core-image-minimal. First initramfs gets bundled with kernel and available after build. This is all good.

Now, how to include second initramfs image also in core-image-minimal? It will be standalone initramfs image i.e. it won't be bundled with kernel. If I specify this recipe in local.conf in CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL or IMAGE_INSTALL_append then I get below error:

"Task do_populate_sdk in core-image-minimal.bb rdepends upon non-existent task do_package_write_rpm in second-initramfs-image.bb"

I can build second-initramfs-image.bb with command "bitbake second-initramfs-image" but I want this to get build automatically when I build core-image-minimal. Please advise

second-initramfs-image.bb:

DESCRIPTION = "Second initramfs"

PACKAGE_INSTALL = " \
        base-files \
        base-passwd \
        busybox \
        sysvinit \
        initscripts \
        ${ROOTFS_BOOTSTRAP_INSTALL} \
    "
# Do not pollute the initrd image with rootfs features
# Enable 'debug-tweaks'. This provides empty root password
IMAGE_FEATURES = "debug-tweaks"

export IMAGE_BASENAME = "second-initramfs-image"
IMAGE_LINGUAS = ""

LICENSE = "MIT"

IMAGE_FSTYPES = "cpio.gz"
inherit core-image

IMAGE_ROOTFS_SIZE = "8192"
IMAGE_ROOTFS_EXTRA_SPACE = "0"

BAD_RECOMMENDATIONS += "busybox-syslog"
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Re: Building two initramfs images

[Tom Rini]

On Wed, Sep 05, 2018 at 01:21:18PM +0000, Amol Lad wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I want to build two initramfs images when building core-image-minimal. First initramfs gets bundled with kernel and available after build. This is all good.
> 
> Now, how to include second initramfs image also in core-image-minimal? It will be standalone initramfs image i.e. it won't be bundled with kernel. If I specify this recipe in local.conf in CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL or IMAGE_INSTALL_append then I get below error:
> 
> "Task do_populate_sdk in core-image-minimal.bb rdepends upon non-existent task do_package_write_rpm in second-initramfs-image.bb"
> 
> I can build second-initramfs-image.bb with command "bitbake second-initramfs-image" but I want this to get build automatically when I build core-image-minimal. Please advise

What is your end goal for first-initramfs and second-initramfs?  Are you
trying to have first-initramfs be the bundled initramfs for the system
and the second one be the initrd that's the main rootfs?  Something
else?

-- 
Tom