Read only forced on jffs2 by mtd layer?

[Nicolas Pitre]

On Fri, 10 Mar 2006, Adam Ward wrote:

> My jffs2 image will mount as ro.
> If I do 'mount / -o remount,rw' it appears to be
> happy, but I soon get told 'Read-only file system' if
> I try anything too presumptuous!
> 
> As running mount still declares it as read/write, I am
> assuming the error is with the mtd block driver
> refusing to co-operate.
> 
> Is there anything you guys can suggest that I should
> pay closer attention to?

Did you unlock the flash partition with the flash_unlock tool?
Some NOR flash parts initialize themselves with all sectors locked by 
default.


Nicolas