From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from devonshire.teligenthost.com ([207.155.249.8]) by pentafluge.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 14zhPf-0007uz-00 for ; Tue, 15 May 2001 17:11:07 +0100 From: "Bao C. Ha" To: "'David Woodhouse'" Cc: Subject: RE: Booting from JFFS2 Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 09:15:43 -0700 Message-ID: <001101c0dd5a$4afc0780$326c020a@SENSORIA> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <27752.989910645@redhat.com> Sender: linux-mtd-admin@lists.infradead.org Errors-To: linux-mtd-admin@lists.infradead.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: This is for a sh4-based board. There are two boot loaders available: lilo and ipl+sh. From your answer, I assume that none of the boot loader out there understands JFFS2 yet. My next option is to partition the flash into three: (1) bootloader, (2) ext2 for kernel/initrd, (3) JFFS2 for the rest of the filesystem's mount points. Thanks. Bao -----Original Message----- From: David Woodhouse [mailto:dwmw2@redhat.com]On Behalf Of David Woodhouse Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 12:11 AM To: Bao C. Ha Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: Booting from JFFS2 baoha@sensoria.com said: > I would like to partition the Flash into two: (1) boot loader and (2) > JFFS2. Can I put the kernel, zImage, and fs.gz on JFFS2, and boot > the kernel from there? The answer to that question is entirely dependent on the bootloader you use. But at the moment, I think there are no bootloaders which support this. There are patches available for Compaq bootldr used on the iPAQ, which make it capable of loading a kernel from a JFFSv1 filesystem. But nobody's yet done JFFS2, AFAIK. We're intending to add this support to RedBoot some time in the near future, hopefully. -- dwmw2