Booting from JFFS2

[Karl Pitrich]

On Tue, 15 May 2001, David Woodhouse wrote:

> baoha at sensoria.com said:
> > I would like to partition the Flash into two: (1) boot loader and  (2)
> > JFFS2.  Can I put the kernel, zImage, and fs.gz on JFFS2,  and boot
> > the kernel from there? 
> 
> The answer to that question is entirely dependent on the bootloader you 
> use. But at the moment, I think there are no bootloaders which support this.
> 

you could check zboot which is used in the yopy pda.
zboot resides on a separate part in the flash.
it is available at yopydeveloper.org under gpl.
i think the gmate guys are currently mangling their system to
jffs so this could work.

karl.