[oe] initramfs image with secondary cramfs inside

[C Michael Sundius]

In otherwords has anyone had any success with making one image depend upon a
2nd image?

if you what did you do to make that work.
mike


On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 4:37 PM, John Van Horne (vanhorj)
<vanhorj at cisco.com>wrote:

> The system I'm working on boots up with an initramfs image which
> contains a very minimal file system. During the boot process, a second
> file system image, in cramfs format, is mounted and used as the root
> file system. Does anyone have any experience using OE to build such an
> image? My approach to this was to have a recipe for the cramfs image and
> a recipe for the initramfs image, and to list the cramfs image as a
> dependency of the initramfs recipe. Both of these recipes inherit the
> image class. However, running bitbake on the initramfs recipe fails
> because the cramfs do_rootfs and do_deploy_to tasks have not run. After
> running bitbake with debug info turned on, it seems that the initramfs
> recipe depends upon the do_populate_stage task of cramfs, but not
> do_rootfs and do_deploy_to. Could anyone offer any insight into why this
> is?
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
> -John
>
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