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Hi Alessandro,

On Fri, 2008-05-23 at 09:03 +0200, Alessandro Rubini wrote:
> So you should only write the boot code with sam-ba, and write your
> kernel and filesystem from either u-boot or linux. You'll probably
> want to erase and re-program the boot loader from itself, to get rid
> of remaining wrong sam-ba bits.

I can try this again on Monday, but I did try erasing the NAND and
mounting it as jffs2 under linux, and it still went belly up after a
short while.  This was with an ext3 root fs on a USB stick.

Regards,
James.