Dear Bill,
In message 505875A7.3040001@techsi.com you wrote:
Thanks to both of you for following up. Over the weekend, I switched to using the initramfs within the kernel configuration (in the Freescale kernel) and set the source directory to my rootfs that will be the ramdrive and it worked great! So I'll stick with this scenario. It's nice too in that the rootfs (a small one) gets bundled up with the kernel (uImage) so its just one file. So it works out really nice. This is a good way for upgrading firmware from the flash.
Actually it's a way that is limited in many respects, and nearly always there are better solutions. If just having one file is important to you, there are other approaches to acchieve the same. Using a FIT image with U-Boot would be a very flexible and powerful way (see doc/uImage.FIT/*), but even a simple multi-file image would do that, and probably better.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk