[ARMedslack] Hello

Davide louigi600 at yahoo.it
Wed Mar 16 18:42:40 UTC 2011


> Some hints:
> Create first partition as fat on usb stick, second
> partition as ext4. The 
> first will be the boot partition and contain your uImage.
> usb start
> ext2load usb 0:1 0x6400000 /uImage
> setenv bootargs root=/dev/sda2 rootfstype=ext4
> run bootcmd
> 
> Something like this...
> 

Cool this gives me some nice hints (but maybe it should be fatload is the the uImage is to be on a fat filesystem).
Never the less what you wrote is much more comprehensive then what uboothas to say when I write "help ext2load".

Another thing: I don't like to have ordinary journaled filesystems on flash devices (not talking about jffs* or other flash tuned filesystems). If I really need that then I try at least to keep the journal on a non flash device. This is a choice after a direct experience having burned out a 8Gb SDHC card after a short time running ext3 system on it without the noatime option. I was luky that transcend have lifetime guarantee and I got it changed with a brand new one that I now use with ext2 and noatime option. I know that 8Gb SDHC are'nt expensive now but at the time when I burned it they were the largest avalible.

Thanks
David 


      


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