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Altera_Forum
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20 years ago

Moving filesystem into CF

Hi people, What is the best way to go about populating the /dev directory in my compact flash file system? After mounting the CF card, the kernel panics: Kernel panic - not syncing:...
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20 years ago

The easiest way is to generate a filesystem using the microtronix filesystem plugin for the Nios2 IDE.

Create an ext2 filesystem on your flash-card

Mount the ramfs image.

copy everything from the ramfs image to the flash card.

This gives you a nice base system with all the needed apps (including init http://forum.niosforum.com/work2/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif ) and /dev entry&#39;s to start off with.