From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wolfgang Denk Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2013 22:07:31 +0100 Subject: [U-Boot] is it possilbe to have uboot find the kernel in the file system? In-Reply-To: <1357246601.7939.128.camel@genx> References: <1357246601.7939.128.camel@genx> Message-ID: <20130103210731.AC920200089@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 John Stile, In message <1357246601.7939.128.camel@genx> you wrote: > Is it possible to add my kernel to the rootfs partition rather than have > a separate partition? Yes, it is - assuming you use a storage device and a file system type supported by U-Boot. > I am using U-Boot 1.3.4, on a at91sam9g20ek (256Mb Nand, 8Mb Nor), and > use the sam-ba firmware upload tool. Oops... v1.3.4 is way over 4 years old. Please consider it hopelessly obsoleted and completely unsupported. > I'd like to put everything on nand, ignore nor, and hold redundant > areas, in perpetration for firmware updates. For NAND flash, you should use UBI UBIFS (and yes, U-Boot can load from a UBIFS file system). The first step to this goal is an update to recent code, though. 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 When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, ponder. -- James H. Boren