From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from dsl-64-129-131-125.telocity.com ([64.129.131.125] helo=cfowler.linuxiceberg.com) by pentafluge.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 17KpDS-0006yB-00 for ; Thu, 20 Jun 2002 00:50:22 +0100 Subject: Re: Updating the root partition From: Christopher Fowler To: Russ Dill Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel , Chris AtLee , Linux MTD In-Reply-To: <1024529392.1205.9.camel@timmy> References: <1024499892.9366.31.camel@geb> <20020620002303.A21586@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> <1024526655.441.5.camel@timmy> <1024528965.13219.12.camel@devel> <1024529392.1205.9.camel@timmy> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: 19 Jun 2002 19:56:43 -0400 Message-Id: <1024531003.13219.15.camel@devel> Mime-Version: 1.0 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: In a way. On my system you have to restart to run on the new software. I have implemented a pseudo single user mode in init that will umount the rootfs and then dump the new software into memory. Ths keeps you from having to do a restart. However, this is not possible from remote locations. You must be on serial console to do this. That is why single user mode is not acceptable. Chris On Wed, 2002-06-19 at 19:29, Russ Dill wrote: > On Wed, 2002-06-19 at 16:22, Christopher Fowler wrote: > > Going into a pseudo single user mode to flash is not acceptable. You > > need to be able to flash from any tty. From any web interface. From > > any command. My unit will flash with a simple flash command while the > > system is running. > > right, you have a program that accepts a flash image, authenicates it, > and copies it to a flash partition, once this is done, *then* you signal > init. > > > ______________________________________________________ > Linux MTD discussion mailing list > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-mtd/ > >