In message <918EB199DDDFFA42BEA2EB3A1C6021F3D49640 at correo.fagorautomation.net> you wrote: > > We would want to use a Compact Flash card with VFAT file system to boot > our system, so we need to store a linux kernel image and an initrd image > on it.
Did you read http://www.denx.de/wiki/view/DULG/RootFileSystemInAReadOnlyFile ??? > U-Boot can load linux kernel image and initrd from Compact Flash to RAM. No need to waste memory on a (big) ramdisk. > We haven't choose already the initrd file system type, but CRAMFS is an > option. However, as I mentioned in the previos message, a CRAMFS initrd > doesn?t boot in our board. cramfs makes no sense on a ramdisk image. Use ext2. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtime Systems, Embedded Linux Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: wd at denx.de In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, however, there is.
