Elvis,

Appreciate the detailed writeup..

Deva,

The links you provided are very helpful..

Thanks
-- Ashwin



On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 8:55 AM, Deva R <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Ashwin,
>
> u can check in below wiki..
> http://omappedia.org/wiki/Android_Getting_Started#Creating_Android.27s_File_System_for_NAND
>
> Additional pointers
> http://omappedia.org/wiki/Android_Fastboot
> http://omappedia.org/wiki/Zoom_Flashing#Flashing_u-boot_and_xloader_to_nand
>
> On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 5:45 PM, Ashwin Bihari <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Guys,
>>
>> A slightly related question, since you're playing with NAND and
>> YAFFS2. Do you guys have a procedure handy on how to generate a YAFFS2
>> RFS image and flash it to the NAND using U-boot? Also on how you flash
>> and load the Kernel from NAND would be great. Appreciate the
>> pointers..
>>
>> Regards
>> -- Ashwin
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 7:54 AM, Deva R <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> pls check 
>>> http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting/msg/d303260bc1dbb08a
>>>
>>> can u cross check ur init.rc for proper MTD partition mounting sequence??
>>>
>>> mount yaffs2 m...@system /system
>>> mount yaffs2 m...@system /system ro remount
>>> mount yaffs2 m...@userdata /data nosuid nodev
>>> mount yaffs2 m...@cache /cache nosuid nodev
>>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 8:32 AM, Elvis Dowson <[email protected]> 
>>> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>    I'm facing a problem, trying to run android-2.6.29 kernel and
>>>> android-1.5r3 off NAND on the gumstix Overo, where somehow, the
>>>> android binaries in the /system/bin folder are getting deleted, like
>>>> vold, etc, upon boot from NAND, with the following error messages.
>>>> These messages appear, and after I inspect the NAND filesystem, its
>>>> actually gone missing.
>>>>
>>>> init: Unable to open persistent property directory /data/property
>>>> errno: 2
>>>> init: cannot find '/system/bin/servicemanager', disabling
>>>> 'servicemanager'
>>>> init: cannot find '/system/bin/vold', disabling 'vold'
>>>> init: cannot find '/system/bin/debuggerd', disabling 'debuggerd'
>>>> init: cannot find '/system/bin/app_process', disabling 'zygote'
>>>> init: cannot find '/system/bin/mediaserver', disabling 'media'
>>>> init: cannot find '/system/bin/installd', disabling 'installd'
>>>> /system/bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off
>>>>
>>>> Before I launched android, I inspected the /system/bin folder in NAND,
>>>> after flashing it, and the above binaries were present. After running
>>>> it from NAND, these binaries disappear.
>>>>
>>>> My NAND partitions are as follows
>>>>
>>>> reating 7 MTD partitions on "omap2-nand":
>>>> 0x000000000000-0x000000080000 : "xloader"
>>>> 0x000000080000-0x000000240000 : "uboot"
>>>> 0x000000240000-0x000000280000 : "uboot environment"
>>>> 0x000000280000-0x000000680000 : "linux"
>>>> 0x000000680000-0x00000a680000 : "system"
>>>> 0x00000a680000-0x00000c680000 : "userdata"
>>>> 0x00000c680000-0x00000e680000 : "cache"
>>>>
>>>> r...@overo:/# cat /proc/mtd
>>>> dev:    size   erasesize  name
>>>> mtd0: 00080000 00020000 "xloader"
>>>> mtd1: 001c0000 00020000 "uboot"
>>>> mtd2: 00040000 00020000 "uboot environment"
>>>> mtd3: 00400000 00020000 "linux"
>>>> mtd4: 0a000000 00020000 "system"
>>>> mtd5: 02000000 00020000 "userdata"
>>>> mtd6: 02000000 00020000 "cache"
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Best regards,
>>>>
>>>> Elvis Dowson
>>>>
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