Hi, Thanks for your prompt reply! Den 2 april 2012 16:29 skrev Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 03:58:49PM +0200, Jakob Malm wrote: >> Hi, >> >> How would I boot a linux system in a cramfs image on USB? I don't seem >> to be able to mount such an image: >> >> ... >> >> Is it not possible to mount a cramfs image file? > > cramfs currently has the limitation that it can only mount > files which are memory mappable (that is for example nor flash). > I never fixed this due to the lack of interest for cramfs. Ok. > > That said, your setup seems a bit crazy. What is inside your cramfs? The > kernel? You should rather put your kernel into a plain partition on the > USB disk. Or do you only have your rootfs inside the cramfs? I rather > recommend ext2 or ext3 for this. The cramfs would contain the rootfs, including kernel. I want to be able to have FAT on the disk, preferably with a single file (possibly two), containing the kernel and rootfs, and then load up the rootfs into memory and start the kernel with that rootfs. I suppose I could create a command specific for our case, but it seems like a common enough scenario to me that someone else should have done something similar... /Jakob _______________________________________________ barebox mailing list barebox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/barebox