sameo/busybox-initramfs.md

## busybox-initramfs.md

      
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Build an initramfs

(Copied from Manohar's gist: https://gist.github.com/mcastelino/74dc46bdfddc9943f2c04466d605a65b which is copied from https://gist.github.com/pacalet/660fa6472e0bcd53f71fc31f167c628f)

Use a busybox based rootfs for ease of use

git clone https://github.com/mirror/busybox
cd busybox
make defconfig
make menuconfig (enable Busybox Settings ---> Build Options ---> Build BusyBox as a static binary (no shared libs) ---> yes)
make
make install


Create the initramfs

mkdir $HOME/rootfs
cd $HOME/rootfs
mkdir -p bin sbin etc proc sys usr/bin usr/sbin
cp -a $BUSYBOX_BUILD/_install/* .
rm linuxrc
sudo mknod -m 644 dev/console c 5 1 
sudo mknod -m 644 dev/loop0 b 7 0


Create an init binary with appropriate contents with executeable perms

#!/bin/sh
mount -t proc none /proc
mount -t sysfs none /sys
echo -e "Hello World\n"
exec /bin/sh