[Buildroot] EXT2-fs error

[Yann E. MORIN]

Johny, All,

On Friday 10 September 2010 17:41:06 Johnny Beardsmore wrote:
> I tried following advice recieved earlier in this thread (to check it on
> the build machine), and get the following output.
> 
> rootfs.i486.tar.bz2 was generated by Buildroot.

Hey! rootfs.i486.tar.bz2 is not an ext2 image. It's a tarball !

> I didn't think e2fsck 
> could be used in this way,

Yes, it can be used on file system images.

I guess you want to properly setup buildroot to generate an ext2 file system
in place of (or along with) a tarball.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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