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This page describes how to inject a gzipped initramfs cpio file into vmlinux as section '''.init.ramfs''': | |||
Firs, turn the initramfs into an ELF binary, excluding everything but the file data: | |||
$ '''objcopy -I binary -O elf32-i386 -B i386 --redefine-sym _binary_initramfs_start=.init.ramfs -N _binary_initramfs_end -N _binary_initramfs_size initramfs initramfs.elf''' | |||
Note that the symbol names '''_binary_initramfs_{start,end,size}''' above depend on the input filename. objcopy does some translation so e.g. a period (.) in the filename becomes an underscore (_) in the symbol names. Then, remove any previous '''.init.ramfs''' section in vmlinux and add the new one from '''initramfs.elf''': | |||
$ '''objcopy -I elf32-i386 -O elf32-i386 -R .init.ramfs --add-section .init.ramfs=initramfs.elf vmlinux vmlinux.withnewinitramfs''' | |||
Done! Please test using '''vmlinux.withnewinitramfs''' as [[Payloads|payload]] with coreboot and let us know the result! | |||
Latest revision as of 16:35, 19 September 2010
This page describes how to inject a gzipped initramfs cpio file into vmlinux as section .init.ramfs:
Firs, turn the initramfs into an ELF binary, excluding everything but the file data:
$ objcopy -I binary -O elf32-i386 -B i386 --redefine-sym _binary_initramfs_start=.init.ramfs -N _binary_initramfs_end -N _binary_initramfs_size initramfs initramfs.elf
Note that the symbol names _binary_initramfs_{start,end,size} above depend on the input filename. objcopy does some translation so e.g. a period (.) in the filename becomes an underscore (_) in the symbol names. Then, remove any previous .init.ramfs section in vmlinux and add the new one from initramfs.elf:
$ objcopy -I elf32-i386 -O elf32-i386 -R .init.ramfs --add-section .init.ramfs=initramfs.elf vmlinux vmlinux.withnewinitramfs
Done! Please test using vmlinux.withnewinitramfs as payload with coreboot and let us know the result!