Mounta Vista Linux prompt on serial console
Wolfgang Denk
wd at denx.de
Wed Feb 16 06:59:39 EST 2005
In message <EF9B29C78F41FA488927FCBC7750AF0E011DA5CB at hyd-mdp-msg.wipro.com> you wrote:
>
> My replies in blue tagged with surabhi
Don't do this. Email is a plain text medium only.
Read the netiquette, and quote properly.
> [surabhi --- start] could you please guide me how to provide a working
> file system on SDRAM before decompressing the Linux Image on SDRAM. Is
> it really related to init process failed.
It is obviously related -there was a clear error message that the
uncompressing of the cramfs filesystem failed.
> Is the below doesn't mean that the mounted one is working one ?
> "VFS: Mounted root (cramfs filesystem) readonly.
> Mounted devfs on /dev "
No, not at all. You can for example mount an empty filesystem - it
will mount perfectly fine, but it still doesn't work.
You should also read my message until the end; I asked:
>> Do not ignore this error. How big is your cramfs iage? How much RAM
>> do you have?
...
>> Is there any chance that you built your cramfs image on a x08 (or any
>> other little-endian) system and forgot to give the "-r" (reverse
>> endian-ness of filesystem) option to mkcramfs??
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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