From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wolfgang Denk Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 22:01:36 +0200 Subject: [U-Boot] uboot kernel rejects filesystem In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20090514200136.ADE03832E416@gemini.denx.de> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Dear Bharat Bhushan, In message you wrote: > > u-b>mtdparts > device nor0 , # parts =3D 5 > #: name size offset mask_flags > 0: boot 0x00040000 0x00000000 0 > 1: boot_config 0x00010000 0x00040000 0 > 2: board_config 0x00010000 0x00050000 0 > 3: kernel 0x00200000 0x00060000 0 > 4: filesystem 0x00400000 0x00260000 0 > > active partition: nor0,0 - (boot) 0x00040000 @ 0x00000000 > > defaults: > mtdids : nor0=3Dm25p80 > mtdparts: > mtdparts=m25p80:256k(boot),64k(boot_config),64k(board_config),2048k(kernel),4m(filesystem) If this is what you want, you should let the kenrel know about that... > Log messages from kernel: ... > Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 16256 > Kernel command line: root=/dev/mtdpart4 rootfstype=squashfs,yaffs,jffs2 > noinitrd console=ttyS0,115200 init=/etc/preinit ... but your kernel's boot arguments show no trace of any mtdparts= argument. > I am sure I am doing something wrong here.....? It is MIPS Architecture + > Linux 2.6.28... Indeed. You did not read what Detlev explained to you: > > So if you have this support in your Linux configuration, you can pass -------------------------------------------------------------^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > the whole "mtdpart=.." through the linux commandline. A nasty part here ----^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Seems you also didn't read Detlev's PS: > > PS: And please stop quoting the full text of the whole e-mail thread as > > this is considered to be impolite on mailing lists. :-( Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: wd at denx.de Anyone who isn't confused here doesn't really know what's going on.