* [U-Boot-Users] Newbie Question on rootfs.ext2.gz.uboot
@ 2006-06-27 8:02 Gary Sanders
2006-06-27 8:20 ` Matthias Fuchs
2006-06-27 8:48 ` Wolfgang Denk
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From: Gary Sanders @ 2006-06-27 8:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: u-boot
I have a root file system that I boot over NFS (x86 host, PPC target).
How do I transform that into a root file system of the form
rootfs.ext2.gz.uboot so I can load that into flash?
Happy to RTFM if someone can point me to it. And yes, I confess, I'm a
newbie to this. :)
Cheers and Thanks!
GS
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* [U-Boot-Users] Newbie Question on rootfs.ext2.gz.uboot
2006-06-27 8:02 [U-Boot-Users] Newbie Question on rootfs.ext2.gz.uboot Gary Sanders
@ 2006-06-27 8:20 ` Matthias Fuchs
2006-06-27 8:48 ` Wolfgang Denk
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From: Matthias Fuchs @ 2006-06-27 8:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: u-boot
Gary Sanders wrote:
> I have a root file system that I boot over NFS (x86 host, PPC target).
>
> How do I transform that into a root file system of the form
> rootfs.ext2.gz.uboot so I can load that into flash?
Take a look at the genext2fs tool (http://genext2fs.sourceforge.net/)
that also comes with the ELDK. It creates an ext2 filesystem image.
Then use gzip to compress and finally use mkimage (part of the ELDK as
well) to make it bootable by u-boot.
Alternatively you can do the genext2fs steps by hand (loopback mount an
image file ....), but you need to become root to do this.
I think there are some hints in the Denx'Wiki.
Matthias
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* [U-Boot-Users] Newbie Question on rootfs.ext2.gz.uboot
2006-06-27 8:02 [U-Boot-Users] Newbie Question on rootfs.ext2.gz.uboot Gary Sanders
2006-06-27 8:20 ` Matthias Fuchs
@ 2006-06-27 8:48 ` Wolfgang Denk
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From: Wolfgang Denk @ 2006-06-27 8:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: u-boot
In message <A6B3D2F0FED7564699FFE261012FF2AB03AC62B2@samson.internal.mediabolic.com> you wrote:
>
> How do I transform that into a root file system of the form
> rootfs.ext2.gz.uboot so I can load that into flash?
>
> Happy to RTFM if someone can point me to it. And yes, I confess, I'm a
> newbie to this. :)
This is indeed a RTFM job. Details can be found in the README
(surprise!) and in the manual (surprise!), see for example
http://www.denx.de/wiki/view/DULG/RootFileSystemDesignAndBuilding
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Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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