JFFS2 Mount problem

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Fri Jun 27 03:40:49 EDT 2003


On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 03:53, Vikram Mehta wrote:
> Hi folks,
> I have built a kernel in RAM and Put in Jffs2 Support with two partitions.
> 
> On Booting However I get these messages for a huge number of times
> ..........
> jffs2_scan_eraseblock(): Magic bitmask 0x1985 not found at 0x000e20c8:
> 0x0007 id
> ...........
> JFFS2: Erase block at 0x000c0000 is not formatted. It will be erased

Either you didn't erase the flash before trying to mount it, or you're
mounting the wrong partition.

> when running the command
>  mount -t jffs2 /dev/mtdblock1 /mnt
> 
> I get
> 
> arena opened of 1 failed
> mount: Mounting /dev/mtdblock1 on /mnt failed: No such device

Does the device node /dev/mtdblock1 exist? Do you have the mtdblock
driver enabled? Check that CONFIG_MTD_BLOCK is set. What does 'cat
/proc/mtd' output?

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dwmw2





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