On Tuesday 13 November 2007 15:39, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > Jean-Michel Bouffard writes: > >What I mean is that the SD card must be ext3 only in the case you want > >to boot from it. I guess that uboot doesn't recognize the FAT partition. > >But maybe ext2 could also boot? and as you said it would be preferable > >for the SD. > > ext2 vs. ext3 wouldn't affect booting -- it's the same format, ext3 is > simply a backward-compatible extension.
Sorry this isn't the case. Having tried with an ext2 formatted card and failing with a kernel panic saying that it had tried ext3, cramfs . Formatting the card ext3 works. It's simply that I forgot to build ext2 support into the kernel ie not as a module, which I've now done and will test shortly. Andy / ScaredyCat
