boot-time partitions and bootargs for 2.6.14

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Tue Oct 11 17:17:54 EST 2005


In message <434B635D.1000509 at rftechnology.com.au> you wrote:
>
> > mtdparts=physically_mapped_flash:1024k(Linux),4096k(FS),2048k(Unused),512k(U-Boot),512() 
> 
> Yep, I set
> mtdparts=phys_mapped_flash:1024k(Linux),4096k(FS),2048k(Unused),512k(U-Boot),512()

You may set it, but do you pass it as part of the boot arguments?

> Here is output:
> 
> Kernel command line: console=ttyCPM0,115200 root=31:01 rw rootfstype=jffs2
> PID hash table entries: 512 (order: 9, 8192 bytes)

No, you don't. [Do you understand now  why  complete  information  is
essential? If you had provided the boot log with the first posting we
would not have wasted our time looking for the wrong things.]

Make sure to add the mtdparts=... stuff to your bootargs!

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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