[Peeweelinux] [peewee and cramfs] mounting a cramfs partition in linux

[Dennis W. Tokarski]

"Charles T. Houghtby IV" wrote:
>
> Hi all!
>

Hi Charles,

If mount says that cramfs isn't supported by the kernel and cramfs
is absent from the list in /proc/filesystems, then it's probably
true ;)

> my kernel version is 2.4.17 with both romfs and cramfs support <*> compiled in.
>
> /proc/filesystems
> nodev           rootfs
> nodev           bdev
> nodev           proc
> nodev           sockfs
> nodev           tmpfs
> nodev           shm
> nodev           pipefs
> nodev           binfmt_misc
> ext2
> msdos
> iso9660
> nodev           nfs
> nodev           devpts
>

At a guess, you may have accidentally configured the kernel to have
*modular* support for cramfs and romfs rather than building it into
the actual kernel image. Run the kernel configurator again (e.g.,
'make xconfig' in the kernel source directory) and double check
under filesystems that you selected built-in rather than modular
cramfs and romfs support. If you're using xconfig, the built-in
button is the left-most one, the middle one is for modular support.

Good luck,

 Dennis Tokarski
 PolTec Electronics