On Tue, 19 May 2009, Koen Kooi wrote:
> On 19-05-09 12:57, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > On Tue, 19 May 2009, Paul M wrote:
> >
> > > 2009/5/19 Robert P. J. Day<rpj...@crashcourse.ca>:
> >
> > > > p.s. is it safe to format the second partition as ext3? or
> > > > should i be using ext2 instead?
> > >
> > > it'll *work* but the extra writes will wear out your card much
> > > faster so best avoided.
> >
> > i suspected as much, so it's nice to have that clarified. but
> > is it possible that ext3 journalling is causing some of those I/O
> > errors you can see in my posted first-time boot output?
>
> If you actually look at the I/O errors, you'll see that their are
> from the mtdblock devices, not the SD card. It has been posted on
> the beagleboard list numerous times before that that's due to linux
> not getting the 'hwecc' format the x-load partition is written as
> (it needs to be in 'hwecc' due to a limitation in the omap3
> bootrom).
ah, thanks for clearing that up. but there are still a number of
other diagnostics (again, admittedly, non-fatal) that clutter up the
(first-time) boot output. do any of those disappear with a newer
build? i'm just a big fan of pretty boot output. :-)
rday
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