How to include initrd.cpio to image

How to include initrd.cpio to image

[Gmane Admin]

I am generating core-image-minimal-initramfs-edison.cpio.gz which is 
found in the deploy-core-image-minimal-initramfs-image-complete/ directory.

When I build my image edison-image initrd gets included and deployed in 
edison-image-edison.hddimg. But I am not using that.

I also generate edison-image-edison.ext4 which has bzImage kernel in 
/boot. But by Zeus, I have no idea how to get edison-image to install a 
file from the other recipe's deploy.

To me it doesn't make sense to include bzImage without initrd, kernel 
will not be able to load the rootfs without.

I know I can bundle the initramfs, and that has worked fine before. 
Until kernel + initrd grew above 15MB, now U-Boot won't load it. I have 
now kernel = 10MB + initrd = 10MB which boot fine when I copy initrd to 
/boot manually.

Re: How to include initrd.cpio to image

[Gmane Admin]

Op 03-05-2020 om 13:42 schreef Gmane Admin:
> Op 30-04-2020 om 23:33 schreef Gmane Admin:
>> I am generating core-image-minimal-initramfs-edison.cpio.gz which is 
>> found in the deploy-core-image-minimal-initramfs-image-complete/ 
>> directory.
>>
>> When I build my image edison-image initrd gets included and deployed 
>> in edison-image-edison.hddimg. But I am not using that.
>>
>> I also generate edison-image-edison.ext4 which has bzImage kernel in 
>> /boot. But by Zeus, I have no idea how to get edison-image to install 
>> a file from the other recipe's deploy.
>>
>> To me it doesn't make sense to include bzImage without initrd, kernel 
>> will not be able to load the rootfs without.
>>
>> I know I can bundle the initramfs, and that has worked fine before. 
>> Until kernel + initrd grew above 15MB, now U-Boot won't load it. I 
>> have now kernel = 10MB + initrd = 10MB which boot fine when I copy 
>> initrd to /boot manually.
> 
> Gmane is crazy. It's me, Ferry.
> 
> I'm still stuck here. Any ideas?

Self answering, I added this to my image recipe:

ROOTFS_POSTPROCESS_COMMAND += "install_initrd; "

install_initrd() {
     bbnote "Adding initrd to image ${IMAGE_ROOTFS}"
     install -d {IMAGE_ROOTFS}/boot
     bbnote "from 
${DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE}/core-image-minimal-initramfs-edison.cpio.gz"
     install -m 0755 
${DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE}/core-image-minimal-initramfs-edison.cpio.gz 
${IMAGE_ROOTFS}/boot/initrd
}


> 
> 

Re: How to include initrd.cpio to image

[Gmane Admin]

Op 30-04-2020 om 23:33 schreef Gmane Admin:
> I am generating core-image-minimal-initramfs-edison.cpio.gz which is 
> found in the deploy-core-image-minimal-initramfs-image-complete/ directory.
> 
> When I build my image edison-image initrd gets included and deployed in 
> edison-image-edison.hddimg. But I am not using that.
> 
> I also generate edison-image-edison.ext4 which has bzImage kernel in 
> /boot. But by Zeus, I have no idea how to get edison-image to install a 
> file from the other recipe's deploy.
> 
> To me it doesn't make sense to include bzImage without initrd, kernel 
> will not be able to load the rootfs without.
> 
> I know I can bundle the initramfs, and that has worked fine before. 
> Until kernel + initrd grew above 15MB, now U-Boot won't load it. I have 
> now kernel = 10MB + initrd = 10MB which boot fine when I copy initrd to 
> /boot manually.

Gmane is crazy. It's me, Ferry.

I'm still stick here. Any ideas?