Error: jffs2_decompress returned -5

[Dominik Karall]

On Friday 27 August 2004 23:50, Brian T wrote:
> So,
>
> After patching 2.4.27 with the snapshot from today, and adding "__ffs" to
> compatmac.h , everything compiles, but then when reading my jffs2 file
> system I get this :
>
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 68k freed
> JFFS2 compression type 0x06 not available.
> Error: jffs2_decompress returned -5
> JFFS2 compression type 0x06 not available.
> Error: jffs2_decompress returned -5
> Kernel panic: No init found.  Try passing init= option to kernel.
>
>
> I haven't seen those errors before.   Anyone care to point me in the right
> direction?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Brian

I think you specified a compression type when building the image with 
mkfs.jffs2, which isn't selected in the kernel config. But I can't tell you 
which type 0x06 is.

regards,
dominik