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I meant to say, buildroot uses uclibc instead of glibc.
Buildroot makes a ramdisk image identical to what 
you are trying to achieve but for different reasons ...

> If you really want to do this I would recommend looking
> at the buildroot project. It builds root filesystems for 
> booting linux from flash on embedded systems. It uses
> uclibc instead of gcc since the latter is a huge beast.