Re: [Gumstix-users] Just want to ...

[James L. <ja...@ti...>]

On 12/02/2012, at 9:30 PM, gum...@li... wrote:

>> G'day all
>> I bought an Earth which was delivered with blank NAND.
>> I've made a bootable SD card (and can boot from it) and I would like to program the nand.
>> I followed 'Just want to ..."http://gumstix.org/how-to/70-writing-images-to-flash.html
>> 
>> The images have a rootfs.tar.bz2 which is just what it says it is (a root fs)
>> The instructions say
>> 
>> "rootfs=omap3-desktop-nand-image-overo.ubi"
>> " ubiformat -y /dev/mtd4 -f $rootfs"
>> 
>> Without lots of trial-n-error and read-the-source-luke can anybody guide me please?
> 
> http://sakoman.com/OMAP/how-to-write-x-loader-to-nand.html
> http://sakoman.com/OMAP/how-to-write-u-boot-to-nand.html
> http://sakoman.com/OMAP/how-to-write-the-linux-kernel-to-nand.html
> http://sakoman.com/OMAP/how-to-write-an-ubifs-rootfs-image-to-nand.html

Steve during my spelunking I did find your site. So thanks for the answer and for the useful information.
Everything works *except* the x-loader:

# mmc rescan 0
# fatload mmc 0 ${loadaddr} MLO
reading MLO

hangs here.
I've tried rebooting ? for help but fatls or even ext2ls gives no list.
My SD is a console-image I built on the sakoman site.

All the tasks on mtdN from a booted system work.
I guess I shall try setup from the u-boot env, but does anyone have any wise words for me please?

Thanks
James