Unable to mount rootfs on mtdblock3

Trilok Soni x000soni at india.ti.com
Fri Feb 27 00:21:39 EST 2004


Gary,

Well, kernel is able to mount jffs2 on board. Here again, I have used "cat"
command only.
But curious to know if there is any logical difference you might have
noticed...

Regards,
Trilok Soni

----- Original Message -----
From: <ghannon at cspi.com>
To: "Trilok Soni" <x000soni at india.ti.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 10:28 PM
Subject: Re: Unable to mount rootfs on mtdblock3


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> >    2.3  cat filesystem.jffs2 > /dev/mtd3
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> >    2.4  mount -t jffs2 /dev/mtdblock3 /mnt/jffs2
> >          It successfully mounts the filesystem...
> >    2.5  umount /mnt/jffs2
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> >Any Suggestions?
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> I'm not sure if cat'ing the file to the device
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> mounted it?   I would have probably tried dd.
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> If this makes a difference, you can post it back to the
> list as the solution you found.  I'm just
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> Gary
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