In message 20031112015902.51448.qmail@web11606.mail.yahoo.com you wrote:
There is some progress. My kernel configuration was bad. I had ONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL which is needed for CONFIG_DEVFS_FS and CONFIG_DEVFS_MOUNT.
You should DISABLE the devfs support for testing. If you think you really needit you can add it later. First get the system running.
So I decided to try the ppc4xx ramdisk from DENX and I am getting this error
One reason might be that this ramdisk is using the conventional /dev system, not devfs.
EXT2-fs error (device ramdisk(1,0)): ext2_check_page: bad entry in directory #2: rec_len is smaller than minimal - offset=0, inode=0, rec_len=0, name_len=0
Does this imply that some entry in the filesystem is corrupted?
No. All in all I think chances are 99% that your RAM is not working correctly. Check your SDRAM init sequence.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk