NAND Boot Issue

[Kamel BOUHARA]

>
> Unaligned partitions are fine, but the partition code should mark
> them as readonly.
>
>
That's why I was unable to erase it getting -EINVAL, things are clear now

It works fine, my kernel is booting :) !

Thank you Sascha

2011/10/18 Sascha Hauer <s.hauer at pengutronix.de>

> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 09:35:38AM +0200, Kamel BOUHARA wrote:
> > I tried with a zImage, here is what I'm getting :
> >
> > barebox:/ bootz /dev/nand0.kernel.bb
> > invalid magic 0x00002018
> >
> > And here the ls -l /dev/nand0.* output :
> >
> >  barebox:/ ls -l /dev/nand0.*
> > crw-------     393216 /dev/nand0.barebox.bb
> > crw-------     131072 /dev/nand0.bareboxenv.bb
> > crw-------    2883584 /dev/nand0.kernel.bb
> > crw-------  533200896 /dev/nand0.root.bb
> > crw-------  533667840 /dev/nand0.root
> > crw-------    2764800 /dev/nand0.kernel
> > crw-------     131072 /dev/nand0.bareboxenv
> > crw-------     307200 /dev/nand0.barebox
> >
> > Here is how I did my kernel and root partitions, following this steps :
> >
> > addpart /dev/nand0 300k(barebox)ro,128k(bareboxenv),2700k(kernel),-(root)
>
> Ok, that puts some light into this. Please make sure your partitions are
> aligned to eraseblock boundaries, usually 128k. so:
>
> addpart /dev/nand0 512k(barebox)ro,128k(bareboxenv),3M(kernel),-(root)
>
> barebox currently does not enforce this, it's probably time to change
> this. Unaligned partitions are fine, but the partition code should mark
> them as readonly.
> Currently we have no way of passing the eraseblocksize through to the
> partition code, so it's not trivial to enforce alignment.
>
> Sascha
>
>
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