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Subject: Re: doc 2000 unknown partition table 
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mfend@harris.com said:
> Partition check:
>  nftla: unknown partition table

That's normal after you've just done nftl_format - there will have been no 
partition table on there. If you tried to write a partition table with 
fdisk and it still said that, then there's something wrong. Check that 
you can read and write the raw /dev/nftla device. 

Also, try using the nftldump utility (on /dev/mtd0) to check that the
contents of the flash are sane. 

--
dwmw2