Yes, I am able to mount the image on an RHEL host using the loopback device. Hemanth -----Original Message----- From: Thiemo Seufer [mailto:ths@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 8:05 PM To: Hemanth V (WT01 - Embedded Systems) Cc: linux-mips@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: CRAMFS Ramdisk image as Rootfs hemanth.venkatesh@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hi All, > > > > I was trying to mount cramfs image as Ramdisk rootfs for 2.6.14 kernel. > Even though the kernel seems to detect the cramfs image, it is not able > to mount it as rootfs. It throws the error "cramfs: bad root offset > 4864" The target is little endian, and RHEL host on which the image was > built is also little endian. Sounds like the fs image is somewhat broken. Is the cramfs loop-mountable on RHEL without showing the error message? Thiemo