[Buildroot] compressed file system

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Dear tallu,

On Wed, 9 Jan 2013 09:53:42 -0800 (PST), tallu wrote:

> I'm new to Linux and to Buildroot.
> I've succeeded to build a kernel and a file system (.ext2) and to
> test it with QEMU.
> Now I'm trying to use a compressed file system (.ext2.gz) but it will
> not load (kernel panic).
> 
> How should I load a compressed file system which is the rootfs?

If you use this filesystem as a hard disk image, i.e the '-hda
rootfs.ext2' Qemu option, then it has to be uncompressed.

Thomas
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