Mounting NAND flash as the root file system

[Ricard Wanderlof]

On Mon, 27 Apr 2009, Jatin Sharma wrote:

> When I boot the kernel using ramdisk (FS in RAM), I am able to run the
> flash_eraseall utility successfully. But the mount command fails:
>
> WDS# mount -t jffs2 /dev/mtd0 /mnt
> mount: mounting /dev/mtd0 on /mnt failed

You should be using the block device - /dev/mtdblock0 - and not the 
character device when mounting.

/Ricard
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