From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] compressed file system
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2013 18:57:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130109185725.7b568bb6@skate> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1357754022866-38293.post@n4.nabble.com>
Dear tallu,
On Wed, 9 Jan 2013 09:53:42 -0800 (PST), tallu wrote:
> I'm new to Linux and to Buildroot.
> I've succeeded to build a kernel and a file system (.ext2) and to
> test it with QEMU.
> Now I'm trying to use a compressed file system (.ext2.gz) but it will
> not load (kernel panic).
>
> How should I load a compressed file system which is the rootfs?
If you use this filesystem as a hard disk image, i.e the '-hda
rootfs.ext2' Qemu option, then it has to be uncompressed.
Thomas
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-09 17:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-09 17:53 [Buildroot] compressed file system tallu
2013-01-09 17:57 ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2013-01-09 19:15 ` tallu
2013-01-09 19:33 ` Julian Lunz
2013-01-09 19:57 ` tallu
2013-01-09 20:56 ` Julian Lunz
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