Varlese, Christopher wrote: > I'm having some trouble booting from a JFFS2 disk partition. > I have a few questions maybe someone can help. > > > Q1: mtdparts=x not necessary? > U-Boot supports configuring and passing mtdparts=x in the kernel > command line. But with powerpc the partitions can be defined in > the device tree and the kernel can parse this to discover the MTD > partitions. So is it right then I don't need to use mtdparts? > ref: drivers/mtd/ofpart.c:of_mtd_parse_partitions() >
If it is working, your choice. > Q2: /proc/partitions empty? > [...] I can't explain. > > Q3: JFFS2 booting fails? > I have a JFFS2 root fs disk image burned to a flash mtd partition. > I can manually mount it with NFS/ram boot scenarios, but so far > cannot boot directly from it as rootfs (infos below). Any > good suggestions what might be wrong? > > [...] > ... > Kernel command line: root=/dev/mtdblock5 rw rootfstype=jffs2 > ip=192.168.33.38:192.168.33.35:192.168.33.35::eter1:eth0:off panic=1 > con0 > [...] > Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on > unknown-block(2,0) I'm using hexadecimal value for "root". I guess in your case try "root=1f05. Domino _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-embedded mailing list Linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-embedded
