[Buildroot] Linux throwing "uncompression error" on rootfs.ext2.gz ?

Judson Wilson judson at powerstandards.com
Tue Jul 3 17:13:29 UTC 2012


> Are you using this file as an initrd, or as the real root filesystem?
> Could you share some details about your setup (where do you put the
> ext2.gz image, what is your kernel command line, kernel configuration,
> etc.).
>
> Thomas

You asked the right questions! Turns out I was not expanding my U-Boot 
serial flash read commands to match my new larger flash partitions and 
images - so only part of the image was getting copied to RAM.

Thank you for the help!

- Judson


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