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From: John Weston <jweston@securenet.com.au>
To: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: Booting from /dev/mtdblock/0
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 10:57:08 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3CCC9A64.87F68E3@securenet.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3CC862ED.5030007@yottayotta.com

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G'day,

Have not got to the bottom of this yet, but having the same problem. We had
a development board which worked fine using kernel version 2.4.3 but since
updating to 2.4.18 we are now seeing the same problem.

Does anyone know of any required patches for this?

Thanks

John Weston



Mutada Shah wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to boot from /dev/mtdblock/0 (root=/dev/mtdblock/0 in cmdline
> options)
>
> When I boot from nfs, I can mount /dev/mtdblock/0 no problem from
> command line & unmount etc.
>
> But if I pass it as the root= option, while booting it gets stuck.
>
> With mtd debug level to 3 I see that it tries mtdblock_open twice...
> which it shouldnt..
>
> "mtdblock_open
> ok
> mtdblock_open
> mtdblock_release"
>
> Then it hangs here for a long time.
> What could be the cause?
>
> Murtada
>
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  reply	other threads:[~2002-04-29  0:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-04-25 20:11 Booting from /dev/mtdblock/0 Murtada Shah
2002-04-29  0:57 ` John Weston [this message]
2002-04-29  1:15   ` John Weston
2002-04-29  2:28   ` Jim Thompson

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