Just want to add: The code in that patch was adapted for the 2.4.23 kernel from the 'linux-2.4' srctree on the denx site (see 'linux-2.4/drivers/block/rd.c').
-----Original Message----- From: Ruhland, Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 2:31 PM To: linuxppc-embedded at lists.linuxppc.org Subject: RE: cramfs mpc8xx 2.4.18 Without more information I can't really tell what is wrong. Did you create an mtd partition map for your flash (need this to use the mtdblock devices)? I used to mount cramfs images from flash, but ran into problems every so often with the cramfs root not decompressing correctly while reprogramming other sectors. So I switched to mounting the cramfs image as a ramdisk. You just build the cramfs image as usual but mount is as a ramdisk when booting the kernel (I use u-boot so I used mkimage to prep it for that also). I've attached a patch against linuxppc_2_4_devel (2.4.23) which adds this capability, if your interested. It simply changes the ramdisk blocksize to match cramfs blocksize if its mounting a cramfs root image. -----Original Message----- From: Lokesh Kumar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 1:33 PM To: linuxppc-embedded at lists.linuxppc.org Subject: cramfs mpc8xx 2.4.18 Hi Gurus, I have a custom board running 2.4.18 with initrd. Now, I want to make cramfs as root filesystem. When I built cramfs support in the kernel and gave it root=/dev/mtdblock1 (where my cramfs in correct endian order is stored on flash) rootfstype=cramfs, the kernel hangs. MTD support is built in the kernel. If I build cramfs as module, then boot my kernel with initrd (ext2) and then mount it (on say /mnt), I can read cramfs correctly. I also looked at rd.c file in drivers/block and noticed that this is does not have cramfs initrd support. Do I need this? What am I doing wrong? Please help Lokesh Kumar ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
