CRAMFS: Error -3 while decompressing!

[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <44718702.1070809 at fagorautomation.es> you wrote:
> 
> We have a mpc5200liteB evaluation board with u-boot 1.1.4 and linux 
> 2.4.25 from Denx.  We have grabed a cramfs  root fs on a mtd partition 
> and we are able to boot linux without problems:
...
> However, we are not able to boot linux with the same rootfs image (with 
> the u-boot header) loaded from RAM.
> 
>         setenv bootargs root=/dev/rw rw console=ttyS0 console=ttyS0
>         init=/sbin/init ip=on

What's /dev/rw ???

> and CRAMFS image is built with correct endianess:

Ummm.. Why would you want to use a cramfs file system in a ramdisk
image? This iseems to be a truely pessimal combination of features to
me. Please see
http://www.denx.de/wiki/view/DULG/RootFileSystemDesignAndBuilding for
some hints...

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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