From: Philip T. (List) <ph...@te...> - 2006-03-09 13:09:45
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Hi, Earlier this year there was a thread about replacing the filesystem and kernel over USB, including what to look out for and what not to do. I lost all my copies of the list in a server crash, and I've tried searching gmane and the sf.net mailing list archives with no success. Can someone post a summary or a link to the thread in the archive please? Thanks, Phil |
From: Dave H. <dhy...@gm...> - 2006-03-09 14:42:11
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Hi Phil, > Earlier this year there was a thread about replacing the filesystem and > kernel over USB, including what to look out for and what not to do. > Here's a link to the original posting: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=3D14733516 Posted on Feb 7, 2006, by Craig Hughes, titled "flashing over ethernet" It was also posted a couple of days ago, but that's not in the archives (which seem to be stuck at Feb 27). -- Dave Hylands Vancouver, BC, Canada http://www.DaveHylands.com/ |
From: Craig H. <cr...@gu...> - 2006-03-09 17:38:04
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On Mar 9, 2006, at 6:42 AM, Dave Hylands wrote: > Hi Phil, > >> Earlier this year there was a thread about replacing the >> filesystem and >> kernel over USB, including what to look out for and what not to do. >> > > Here's a link to the original posting: > http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=14733516 > Posted on Feb 7, 2006, by Craig Hughes, titled "flashing over > ethernet" > > It was also posted a couple of days ago, but that's not in the > archives (which seem to be stuck at Feb 27). A couple of days ago, I pointed out my amendment to the original concept, which was to point out that flashcp does not erase the entire flash partition, so if your rootfs image is smaller than the complete partition, you can have "leftovers" of the original filesystem in the high sectors of flash, and that due to the way JFFS2 works, this can cause effectively filesystem corruption. So if you use this method, you should make sure your rootfs image is padded out with 0xff to the full length of the flash partition (ie either (32-2)*128k or (128-2)*128k for non-xm and xm respectively. C |
From: Philip T. (List) <ph...@te...> - 2006-03-10 11:36:06
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Thanks guys, Just what I needed. Phil |