Robert P. J. Day wrote:
On Thu, 15 Dec 2005, Jay Moore wrote:
On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 20:02 -0500, Neil Cherry wrote:
Rather than hijack the CF-based Router thread I thought I'd ask
in a separate thread. Does anyone have a good howto, tutorial or
book for understanding building an embedded Linux setup? I have
several boards that I want to use but I always run into trouble
with the initrd, or pivot root or something near in the process.
Any pointers?
Well there's a book titled "Building Embedded Linux Systems" by
Karim Yaghmour. I'd almost recommend it as I think it does a
reasonably good job of covering things, but it falls short (IMHO) of
providing the "how- to" necessary to get a real system going. And
the author has apparently found other fish to fry, as there are no
errata nor updates to the book (last I checked anyway).
you have to be more specific -- an embedded linux for what processor?
Many, different ones. Current interest is in the ARM family and
the x86 processors.
as a start, crosstool to build your cross-compiler toolchain. then,
for general info, www.denx.de has lots of good information.
The cross tools haven't been a problem. There are many good
tutorials on how to build them. Where I get burnt is building
the files needed for booting from flash. I've gotten stuck
(crashed) in initrd because it couldn't find the correct file
system. Put the same build on a floppy and it would boot. I
always seem to get stuck there.
BTW, one of the boards is an in house design so there are
no mailing lists.
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