From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Grant Erickson Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:02:38 -0700 Subject: [U-Boot-Users] Loading from NAND using 'nboot' Periodically Fails Where 'nand read' Succeeds In-Reply-To: <20080602182108.GA3680@loki.buserror.net> Message-ID: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de On 6/2/08 11:21 AM, Scott Wood wrote: > On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 08:22:21AM +0200, Stefan Roese wrote: >> Hi Grant, >> >> On Monday 02 June 2008, Grant Erickson wrote: >>> Before I jump in with the BDI and start debugging, has anyone else using >>> 'nboot' and FIT images noticed that 'nboot' periodically fails where 'nand >>> read.i' of the SAME region of NAND succeeds? >> >> Not sure here, since I never used nboot before. But "nand read.i" skips bad >> blocks and perhaps "nboot" not? I suggest that you check if this is the case >> and if you have bad blocks in this NAND area. > > It is indeed the case -- you need to use "nboot.i". > > -Scott Scott and Stefan, Thanks for the suggestion. That solved it. As an academic exercise, is there any practical reason a system would want to use nboot, as I erroneously chose to do, without .i|.jffs2|.e? Regards, Grant -- Principal Nuovation System Designs, LLC 998 Alpine Terrace Suite 3 Sunnyvale, CA 94086-2469 US T +1-408-749-0495 F +1-205-449-0495 M +1-408-489-5710 gerickson at nuovations.com http://www.nuovations.com/