From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2013 18:57:25 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] compressed file system In-Reply-To: <1357754022866-38293.post@n4.nabble.com> References: <1357754022866-38293.post@n4.nabble.com> Message-ID: <20130109185725.7b568bb6@skate> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net 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 -- Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com