Re: [microblaze-uclinux] Error -3 while decompressing!

["Monthadar Al-Jaberi" <monthadar@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Thank you for clarifying, but why would the pre-built image.bin that
comes with peta-linux work? It is also using cramfs.

best regards,

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 2:07 AM, David McCullough
<David_Mccullough@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Jivin Monthadar Al-Jaberi lays it down ...
>> Just an update,
>>
>> I changed the filesystem from cramfs to romfs. And it booted and
>> everything seems to work.
>> Only thing was that the image became larger from ~4MB to ~6MB.  Other
>> than that it seems it is fairly safe to use romfs instead cramfs?
>>
>> This also confirms my suspicion about zlib. Becuase installing in
>> ubuntu zlib1g-dev is not the solution. We are cross-compiling right? I
>> should link to the zlib in the petalinux distribution.
>
> Your problem is more likely due to unreliable RAM.
>
> cramfs (due to decompression) works RAM a lot harder than romfs even if
> both are in RAM.  If your romfs in in ROM,  the RAM is not working
> anywhere near as hard ;-)
>
> Also,  cramfs's decompression actually checks things are making sense.
> romfs does not.
>
> Cheers,
> Davidm
>
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