From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from dell-paw-3.cambridge.redhat.com ([195.224.55.237] helo=passion.cambridge.redhat.com) by pentafluge.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 15DDaJ-00074U-00 for ; Fri, 22 Jun 2001 00:09:59 +0100 From: David Woodhouse In-Reply-To: <0106211659100B.11839@golan> References: <0106211659100B.11839@golan> To: M Butcher Cc: "MTD for Linux" Subject: Re: DOC Millenium not found by docprobe Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 00:15:17 +0100 Message-ID: <26595.993165317@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: mbutcher@aleph-null.tv said: > But I wanted to create a single partition, so I followed the steps in > the jffs howto and did the following: > (0: sometimes do an 'erase') > 1: nftl_format /dev/mtd0 > 2: fdisk /dev/nftla (make one big partition) You didn't need step 1. We definitely shouldn't be encouraging people to do that. Just using fdisk to change the partitioning would have been enough. > 3: mke2fs /dev/nftla Is this a typo? Having made a partition you then erased it by using mkfs on the _whole_ device rather than the single partition. That's fine if it's what you wanted... but... > 4: mount -t ext2 /dev/nftla1 /mnt I'm amazed this worked. mbutcher@aleph-null.tv said: > When I used the Millenium Only driver, I got an error from docprobe > saying something like "no driver", though I could see it with lsmod. To use that, you need to undef DOC_SINGLE_DRIVER in docprobe.c -- dwmw2