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Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> Before the first write attempt you need to run flash-unlock on the
> corresponding flash partition.
>   
Will this work if it's your rootfs?  ie. it will need to be mounted and 
possibly written to before you get to the point where you can run 
flash-unlock.  I guess if you mount ro then there won't be any writes.

Justin.