Problems with Jffs2 on this board

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Tue Jun 25 09:36:01 EDT 2002


esn at cotas.dk said:
>  I create a root filesystem image with mkfs.jffs2 which I transfer to
> the  flash on the board with over serial. I can now boot the kernel
> from the  bootloader but the kernel can't find other files that those
> in /devs (from  the debug level of 2 in the jffs2 subsystem in the
> kernel) and thus fails to call /sbin/init.

Your mkfs.jffs2 isn't the problem though -- can you double-check that the 
image has made it correctly to the flash? If you can boot nfsroot, read it 
back from the /dev/mtd device and compare it with the original -- to verify 
correct download and correct partitioning setup etc.

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dwmw2






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