In message <20060806040329.51416.qmail@web27003.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> you wrote:
> I built Linux kernel (V2.4) as follows:
> - Created EXT2 ramdisk.gz as documented in Documentation/ramdisk.txt
> - The ramdisk contains the content of buildroot/build_mipsel/root/, which
> contains bin, etc, lib, linuxrc, sbin (sh.. etc), usr. I also created under
> /dev console null, tty*....
> - Copied ramdisk.gz to /linux/arc/mips/ramdisk/
...
> Tracing down the codes, I noticed I got EXT2-fs error.
Your ramdisk is probably much bigger than the kernel's default of 4 MB.
Please see the FAQ at
http://www.denx.de/wiki/view/DULG/RamdiskGreaterThan4MBCausesProblems
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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