Hello, i have created yaffs image on host(x86) as follows. as you can see the image has 4 files erase eraseall nanddump test.c [skumar@embedded_linux skumar]$ cd del [skumar@embedded_linux del]$ ls erase eraseall nanddump test.c [skumar@embedded_linux del]$ cd .. [skumar@embedded_linux skumar]$ ./mkyaffsimage del/ tmp/yaffs.image mkyaffsimage: image building tool for YAFFS built Oct 4 2002 Processing directory del/ into image file tmp/yaffs.image Object 257, del//erase is a file, 28 data chunks written Object 258, del//test.c is a file, 1 data chunks written Object 259, del//eraseall is a file, 29 data chunks written Object 260, del//nanddump is a file, 29 data chunks written Operation complete. 4 objects in 1 directories 92 NAND pages [skumar@embedded_linux skumar]$ 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