Andy Powell writes: >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.
Huh -- I'd thought ext3 depended on ext2. Didn't realize it had its own drivers in the kernel... but fixing the kernel config seems like a *really* good idea!
