[U-Boot-Users] quick gzip question/issue.

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Tue Apr 19 09:08:58 CEST 2005


In message <s264e329.041 at EMAIL> you wrote:
> 
> I am assuming that you are using uClinux with 'romfs' as your rootfilesystem.
> If this is the case, you should create your 'uImage' with 'image.bin' and
> not 'linux.bin'. The 'linux.bin' is just the kernel and does not include
> the romfs image in it.Also noticed that u have given "root=/dev/mtdblock"

And this is what is intended. It is one of the design goals of U-Boot
to get rid of the need to bundle the Linux kernel and the  root  file
system into one image.


Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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