An observation with omap_xload

[Sascha Hauer]

On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 05:23:13PM +0000, Premi, Sanjeev wrote:
> Yesterday, i spent quite sometime dealing with 'MLO', unable to find
> 'barebox.bin'. The failure was always:
> 
> barebox 2012.01.0ABC-00248-g9119228-dirty (Feb  7 2012 - 16:39:43)
> 
> Board: Texas Instrument's OMAP3EVM
> Malloc space: 0x87bfff10 -> 0x87ffff0f (size  4 MB)
> Stack space : 0x4020f000 -> 0x4020fc00 (size  3 kB)
> booting from MMC1
> mounting sd card failed with -22
> booting failed
> 
> Since, I was working mostly off the windows machine, i didn't
> realize that SD card had only one partition and mount would
> fail as we explicitly mount "disk0.0" in omap_xload_boot_mmc().

You mean that it only has one partition without a partition table?

> 
> Unfortunately, trying to mount "disk0" didn't help and I got
> same error. Haven't debugged this further though.
> 
> Also, would it make sense to try mounting "disk0.0" and "disk0"
> before returning failure?

Yes, seems to make sense. The only contra I can imagine is that
for booting a kernel and rootfs the user probably needs a partitioned SD
card anyway.
 
> 
> I am anyways planning to submit a patch changing the message:
>   mounting sd card failed with -22
> to
>   Unable to mount disk0.0 (-22)

Sounds good.

Sascha


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