On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 11:30:54AM +0800, Vanitha Ramaswami wrote:
> I am running open source embedded linux on a IXP425 reference board.
> After adding a couple of new modules the ramdisk image size has exceeed
> 8192 bytes.
>
> I am trying to use cramfs file systems instead ext2, and using the mkcramfs
> utility to create the cramfs file system image. But i couldnt find any option
> equivalent to the genext2fs -f dev.txt in mkcramfs utility. Hence when i run,
> i am getting the error "Unable to open an initial console"..since the devices
> are not created.
>From the mkcramfs manual page:
SYNOPSIS
mkcramfs dirname outfile
DESCRIPTION
mkcramfs constructs a CramFs from the contents of dirname.
The image of the resulting file system is placed in out-
file.
So build your filesystem in a directory, run mkcramfs on that directory
and you have your filesystem image.
> Have any loaded large images to the IXP425 ADI reference board?
No, see:
http://lists.arm.linux.org.uk/pipermail/linux-arm/2001-February/000545.html
(same holds for large cramfs images)
Erik
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