From: Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@coritel•it>
To: Siva Prasad <sprasad@bivio•net>
Cc: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs•org
Subject: Re: RAMDISK: ran out of compressed data
Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2008 09:05:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48746347.7050107@coritel.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D83235F0F3C86D4D889D8B9A0DA8C6D702B63C3B@corpexc01.corp.networkrobots.com>
Siva Prasad ha scritto:
> Hi,
>
> The same ramdisk works fine for 2.6.15 kernel. We are just upgrading to
> a new version, and would like to get that ramdisk to work on the new one
> as well.
>
> Can you please elaborate on what you mean by compression format. Mine
> currently use the standard .gz extension/compression.
>
> Thanks
> Siva
>
>
> Siva Prasad ha scritto:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am getting the following error when I tried to boot with ramdisk.
> Any
>> specific reason or clue why this is happening?
>>
>> RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
>> RAMDISK: ran out of compressed data
>> invalid compressed format (err=1)
>>
>> I am running into this on 8641D runing 2.6.24-rc6 kernel. My .config
>> around block area are...
>>
>> CONFIG_BLK_DEV=y
>> # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD is not set
>> # CONFIG_BLK_CPQ_DA is not set
>> # CONFIG_BLK_CPQ_CISS_DA is not set
>> # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_DAC960 is not set
>> # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_UMEM is not set
>> # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_COW_COMMON is not set
>> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP=y
>> # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CRYPTOLOOP is not set
>> # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_NBD is not set
>> # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SX8 is not set
>> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM=y
>> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_COUNT=16
>> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE=49152
>> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_BLOCKSIZE=1024
>>
>> Thanks
>> Siva
>>
>
>
> I think it's not a kernel problem but a problem related with the
> compression method instead. Check out how you are compressing the
> ramdisk.
>
Yes, I meant a problem about gzip or bzip2, but if it works with
2.6.15....I don't what is the problem.
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Marco Stornelli
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-08 0:21 RAMDISK: ran out of compressed data Siva Prasad
2008-07-08 6:58 ` Marco Stornelli
2008-07-08 22:54 ` Siva Prasad
2008-07-09 7:05 ` Marco Stornelli [this message]
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