[U-Boot-Users] Loading from NAND using 'nboot' Periodically Fails Where 'nand read' Succeeds

[Grant Erickson <gerickson@nuovations.com>]

On 6/2/08 11:21 AM, Scott Wood wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 08:22:21AM +0200, Stefan Roese wrote:
>> Hi Grant,
>> 
>> On Monday 02 June 2008, Grant Erickson wrote:
>>> Before I jump in with the BDI and start debugging, has anyone else using
>>> 'nboot' and FIT images noticed that 'nboot' periodically fails where 'nand
>>> read.i' of the SAME region of NAND succeeds?
>> 
>> Not sure here, since I never used nboot before. But "nand read.i" skips bad
>> blocks and perhaps "nboot" not? I suggest that you check if this is the case
>> and if you have bad blocks in this NAND area.
> 
> It is indeed the case -- you need to use "nboot.i".
> 
> -Scott

Scott and Stefan,

Thanks for the suggestion. That solved it. As an academic exercise, is there
any practical reason a system would want to use nboot, as I erroneously
chose to do, without .i|.jffs2|.e?

Regards,

Grant

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