From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 28 Jun 2001 03:57:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 28 Jun 2001 03:56:54 -0400 Received: from t111.niisi.ras.ru ([193.232.173.111]:40480 "EHLO t111.niisi.ras.ru") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 28 Jun 2001 03:56:38 -0400 Message-ID: <3B3B5349.3050905@niisi.msk.ru> Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 11:54:49 -0400 From: Alexandr Andreev Organization: niisi User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.4.3 i686; en-US; rv:0.9) Gecko/20010507 X-Accept-Language: ru, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Barry Wu , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: about linux mips ext2fs In-Reply-To: <20010625155706.66345.qmail@web13907.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=KOI8-R; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Barry Wu wrote: > >I want port linux to our mipsel system. The kernel >can work and system stop at mount root file system. >I download root file system for mipsel from MIPS >company. Because our system have no ethernet >interface, >I have to copy root file system directly to our hard >disk. I put hard disk under intel linux, and using >fdisk and make ex2fs on it. Then I copy root file >system to hard disk. After finished, I place this hard >disk under our mipsel environment. I do not know if >it can work under this environment, the kernel can >mount root file system? If someone knows, please help >me. > I have MIPSEB, and there is no problems with ext2. As i know, it doesn't matter where you created your rootfs and put it on disk. But you have to take the kernel for a MIPS from oss.sgi.com, by the way.