As Nick says, mkyaffsimage just builds a binary image of the yaffs NAND and 
does not install it onto the NAND.

Loading the image can be done in two ways:
* Some custome loader as per what Nick describes.
* mkyaffs.

mkyaffs formats an mtd for YAFFS. If you specify the optional image file (ie 
created by mkyaffsimage), then it will load that image into the NAND too. I 
think this is what you want.

NB mkyaffs is largely untested, but should work with a few smacks. If you 
change/fix something please feed it back to either me or the list.

The reason your cp did not work is that the cp does not write the OOB data 
which is critical to YAFFS.


-- CHarles


On Sat, 04 Jan 2003 01:41, Nick Bane wrote:
> Sharath
>
> If you are writing raw image data to the mtd device via the standard mtd
> driver then it wont work for two reasons
>
> 1) The image data contains oob data as well as "normal" mtd data.
> 2) It is not clear if you are writing to block 0 on the device. If so, be
> aware that yaffs skips this block.
>
> There was a mooted a while back for a utility to write images to nand mtd
> devices but I don't think anything has happened. I am too busy right now
> but I may get round to it later.
>
> To do this, I modifies the bootloader and wrote the data directly to the
> nand chip.
>
> Nick Bane
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Skumar" <skumar@mistralsoftware.com>
> To: <yaffs@toby-churchill.org>
> Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 9:37 AM
> Subject: cannot see files in yaffs image
>
>
> i have put the yaffs.image in the ramdisk, booted linux on board & run the
> following
>
> Mistral
> Linux login: root
> [root@Linux /root]$ls
> dialogue.mp3   Hello_448.pcm  sound_arm      record         testioctl
> yaffs.image
> [root@Linux /root]$cp yaffs.image /dev/mtd7
> MTD_open
>
> MTD_write
>
> MTD_write
>
> MTD_write
>
> MTD_write
>
> MTD_write
>
> MTD_write
>
> MTD_close
>
> [root@Linux /root]$cd ..
> [root@Linux /]$mount -t yaffs /dev/mtdblock7 tmp
> yaffs: dev is 7943 name is "1f:07"
>
> yaffs_read_super: MTD block size 4096
>
> yaffs: Attempting MTD mount on 31.7, "1f:07"
>
>  erase c00b2ac0
>
>  read c00b2748
>
>  write c00b2898
>
>  readoob c00b27f0
>
>  writeoob c00b2950
>
>  oobblock 200
>
>  oobsize 10
>
> yaffs_read_super: guts initialised
>
> yaffs_read_super: got root inode
>
> yaffs_read_super: d_alloc_root done
>
> yaffs_read_super: done
>
> [root@Linux /]$cd tmp
> [root@Linux /tmp]$ls
> yaffs_readdir: starting at 0
>
> yaffs_readdir: starting at 3
>
> yaffs_readdir: starting at 0
>
> yaffs_readdir: starting at 3
>
> lost+found
> [root@Linux /tmp]$
> [root@Linux /tmp]$ls -la
> yaffs_readdir: starting at 0
>
> yaffs_readdir: starting at 3
>
> yaffs_readdir: starting at 0
>
> drw-rw-rw-    1 root     root         512 Jan  1 00:01 .
> drwxr-yar-x   14      5f0      500    1f24 Aug  7  2002 ..
> s_readdir: starting at 3
>
> drw-rw-rw-    1 root     root         512 Jan  1 00:01 lost+found
>
> as you can see when i do ls i cannot any of the files except lost+found
> why is it like this?
> Regards
> sharath
>
>
>
>
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