bareboxenv on userspace - wrong crc on env

[Sascha Hauer]

On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 11:24:41AM +0200, Vanhauwaert Wouter wrote:
> Hello all, 
> 
> I'm having issues accessing my barebox environment from within linux....
> 
> My barebox and environment are located on a SPI NOR flash.
> This boots ok, and barebox is able to save its environment to it.
> 
> When I want to load it in userspace through:
> 
> $ bareboxenv -l /mnt /dev/mtd1
> Or 
> $ dd if=/dev/mtd1 /tmp/barebox
> Or 
> $ dd if=/dev/mdtblock1 /tmp/barebox
> 
> Result is:
> Wrong crc on env
> 
> However it's working fine in barebox itself
> 
> What can be wron?

The only idea I have is that /dev/mtd1 might not be the place where
barebox stores it's environment, maybe because of different probe order
in the kernel or different partition layout. Could you send a hexdump of
the first 256 bytes or so of /dev/mtd1?

Sascha

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