Hi everyone,

I guess this is not a big problem, still I can't see what's the matter.

I'm building Images for an Embedded Linux (2.6.39) ARM9 System with Buildroot 2013.11, which is booting from an SD card. I was trying different file system formats, where some of them couldn't manage to boot.

What I did for the working ones: E.g.: rootfs.cramfs is working, in Linux menuconfig I selected

File Systems
- Miscellaneous filesystems
- - Compressed ROM file system support (cramfs)

Then I put the kernel on the first partition of the sd, and for the second partition I used the dd command:

sudo dd if=/[path-to-rootfs]/rootfs.cramfs of=/dev/sdb2 bs=2048

The kernel command line looks like:

console=ttyS0,115200 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rootwait

And it's booting the system without any problems.

What I did for the ones that didn't work: E.g.: rootfs.ubifs (and many others too). Actually I did nearly the same steps as above. The Kernel command line stays the same. The things I canged is in linux-menuconfig:

File Systems
- Miscellaneous filesystems
- - SquashFS 4.0 - Squashed file system support
- - - Squashfs XATTR support
- - - Include support for LZO compressed file systems
- - - Include support for XZ compressed file systems

and dd command:

sudo dd if=/[path-to-rootfs]/rootfs.ubifs of=/dev/sdb2 bs=2048

(btw: after this step the host system isn't able anymore to read the content of the 2 partition).

But then It crashes during boot with the message:

No filesystem could mount root

and then, when trying to boot the target with the sd, a kernel panic occurs (due to the line above). If interested I can put the .config file here.

Does anyone see my mistake?

According to an UBIfs documentation, it won't work if used with an Flash device like SD or USB.