boot to MTD-partitioned NAND from DOS w/loadlin?

[Jan Vestby]

On Tuesday 21 June 2005 17:11, David L wrote:
> Sorry about the no subject in my last post.  :(
>
> >Hi,
> >
> >
> >Is there a way to maintain this strategy if we use MTD?  I saw in the NAND

Yes. Have you considered using syslinux ?

> >API document that only jffs2 and YAFFS filesystems can be used with MTD.
> >Is there any way around this? (I don't care how efficient it is).  And

It is technically possible to use pretty much any file system, but for 
writable filesystems you will quickly get into trouble without the wear 
levelling  of jffs2/yaffs.
 
> > even if there is a workaround that would allow us to modify files in a
> > DOS filesystem from Linux, will MTD partitions be visible from DOS so
> > that we can boot in the first place?
> >
> >Thanks...
> >
> >                    David

regards 
jan vestby

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