[parisc-linux] ramdisk problem with ELF kernel

[Ulrich Strelow]

Hi all,

I switched my build environment from HP-UX 10.20 SOM
to cross compile on x86 ELF and building and booting a
kernel works fine. Compiling the kernel now only takes
5-10 minutes compared to 1 to 1 1/2 hours(!) on my
715/33. Great ! But (there is always a but) ...

Because there is currently no network driver for the
715/33 I need to boot with a ramdisk. In former times
there was copying ramdisk.bin to /usr/src/linux and
"make Image", but how to do this now (when "make
Image" no longer works)?

This is what I have tried:
I found the undocumented "-r" switch in palo to add a
ramdisk to the lif image. I tried both the original
ramdisk.bin and the compiled ramdisk.o but in both
cases the kernel is not able to detect the ramdisk.

Has anyone a solution to this?

Ulrich

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