[U-Boot-Users] boot a compressed and an encrypted root filesystem ..

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Sat Jul 14 11:09:27 CEST 2007


In message <4a93f8270707132230r7c4f7612r2c367c14be622adf at mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
> 
> Can u-boot, boot a compressed and an encrypted root filesystem .. ?

No, it cannot. U-Boot cannot boot any file systems at all.

U-Boot can boot an OS image, like a Linux kernel image. Linux in turn
will then mount a root file system, but if this can be  a  compressed
and encrypted one depends on your Linux system, not on U-Boot.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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