boot-time partitions and bootargs for 2.6.14

[Robin Gilks]

Dmytro Bablinyuk wrote:

>> Are you sure that your flash device name in Linux is just "0" ? 
>
> I think you are right. I missed the point.
>
> => flinfo
>
> Bank # 1: Sharp 28F016SC (16 Mbit, 32 x 64K)
>   Size: 8 MB in 32 Sectors
>   Sector Start Addresses:
>     FF800000      FF840000      FF880000      FF8C0000      FF900000
>     FF940000      FF980000      FF9C0000      FFA00000      FFA40000
>     FFA80000      FFAC0000      FFB00000      FFB40000      FFB80000
>     FFBC0000      FFC00000      FFC40000      FFC80000      FFCC0000
>     FFD00000      FFD40000      FFD80000      FFDC0000      FFE00000
>     FFE40000      FFE80000      FFEC0000      FFF00000 (RO) FFF40000 (RO)
>     FFF80000      FFFC0000
>
> So I have
> mtdparts=1:1024k(Linux),4096k(FS),2048k(Unused),512k(U-Boot),512()
>
> But problem remains...
> Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 
> unknown-block(31,1)

Are you using physmap as the means of creating the mtd devices? If so 
there is a bug in many variants of the kernel that defines the map 
structure as follows:
struct map_info physmap_map = {
    .name = "Physically mapped flash",
    .size = WINDOW_SIZE,
    .buswidth = BUSWIDTH,
    .phys = WINDOW_ADDR,
};

Note that the name has embedded spaces - something I've never managed to 
get U-Boot to pass across on the kernel command line (I'm sure Wolfgang 
will correct me if I'm wrong here!!). The '1' in your 
"mtdparts=1:1024k(Linux)" should match the name of this map. In this 
case the code needs to be changed to NOT have spaces in it (and perhaps 
a more user friendly name) and the kernel config values for WINDOW_SIZE, 
BUSWIDTH and WINDOW_ADDR set correctly. That way you'd end up with 
something like:
struct map_info physmap_map = {
    .name = "fred",
    .size = WINDOW_SIZE,
    .buswidth = BUSWIDTH,
    .phys = WINDOW_ADDR,
};
and a command line something like:
mtdparts=fred:1024k(Linux),4096k(FS),2048k(Unused),512k(U-Boot),512()

I'd also suggest that you mount a known good fs using NFS (if you have 
ethernet on your target) and then try manually mounting the flash fs - 
that will check out its structure (endian-ness?) and the jffs2 drivers 
on your target.

-- 
Robin Gilks
Senior Design Engineer          Phone: (+64)(3) 357 1569
Tait Electronics                Fax  :  (+64)(3) 359 4632
PO Box 1645 Christchurch        Email : robin.gilks at tait.co.nz
New Zealand


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