Hmm... i've been using cvs sources from aleph1 for quite some time, and 
i've never seen a mkyaffs command before ... although mkyaffsimage is 
practically the same idea.


Christopher Friedt wrote:
> Ok, so i determined that because of the 512 blocksize on my device, it's 
> actually a yaffs-1 image. Still, I've tried using mkyffsimage and still, 
> nothing appears at all in / -- linux halts saying that it can't find 
> /sbin/init, and again, when I mount the mtdblock device under the same 
> kernel (first using nfs root) then all i see is 'lost+found'.
> 
> Has anyone on this list used RedBoot to write a yaffs filesystem to 
> flash? If so, how?
> 
> My host system is x86. My target system is arm, little-endian.
> 
> I've tried both using an x86-compiled mkyaffsimage and an arm-compiled 
> mkyaffsimage, but neither seem to work, although they say they're adding 
> all of the files.
> 
> Say a directory exists called 'newroot' which contains all of the arm 
> filesystem that I want to create. I use:
> 
> mkyaffsimage newroot ../new_root.yaffs
> 
> Then with RedBoot, I use
> 
> fis delete ...
> load ...
> fis write ...
> 
> Am I missing some crucial step?
> 
> 
> ~/Chris
> 
> Christopher Friedt wrote:
>> This might sound like a really, really over-answered FAQ, but how does 
>> one actually go about creating a yaffs2 image?
>>
>> I used mkyaffs2image on a directory, received a file image in return, 
>> and there were no error codes on exit. However, After writing that image 
>> to flash with RedBoot, launching into an NFS root, and mounting the 
>> flash device, absolutely nothing shows up within the directory aside 
>> form 'lost+found'.
>>
>> Could anyone offer some instruction as to how I could write a yaffs2 
>> image to flash 'properly' ?
>>
>>
>> ~/Chris
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