[maemo-developers] Making a custom root FS

[From: D. Scott Brown]

On Jun 23, 2008, at 3:36 AM, Frantisek Dufka wrote:

> D. Scott Brown wrote:
>> 3. extract the rootfs from the retail image, mount it, and tar it.  
>> If  I mount the JFFS2 using kernel memory emulating a MTD, I get  
>> "error  inserting mtdram - cannot allocate memory". If I mount the  
>> JFFS2 using  block device emulating MTD, the tar fails with tons of  
>> read errors at  byte 0.
>
> Check script and folowup posts here
> http://www.internettablettalk.com/forums/showthread.php?p=192475#post192475

Thanks! I actually just needed to upgrade my linux kernel so that  
JFFS2 LZO compression was enabled. Once I switched to Edgy, it worked  
perfectly.

Scott