root jffs2 filesystem on blkmtd emulated device

Russ Dill Russ.Dill at asu.edu
Tue Apr 9 15:42:50 EDT 2002


On Tue, 2002-04-09 at 09:42, Mike Mattice wrote:
> I've got a flash based ide module which is too small for my needs w/o 
> compression.  So, I'm trying to get this to use jffs2 as it's root 
> filesystem type.   I've run into a bit of a problem.
> 
> After applying the following patch, using the attached config, and passing 
> 'blkmtd=/dev/hdc2' to the kernel and setting the root device to 
> '/dev/mtdblock/0' via lilo, I get this on the console.  (hand typed, but 
> should be very close)

good debugging, it was fixed in october, but due to some cvs snafu, has
never made it into the 2.4 kernels. Just remove the invalidate_device
call





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