Thanks, that makes life a bit easier.
But what about that mkyaffs2image? What's its purpose all about, if it
does not work? I tried to solve the problem that the image does not get
created properly, but looking through the code, I have no idea where to
do what..
Christian
> You don't have to make an empty image as far as I had tested,
> Just use flash_eraseall to erase mtd device and put files into it,
> boot with option rootfstype=yaffs2, it boot properly .
> I am not sure whether it is truely yaffs2 partition ,but /proc
> information tell me it's an yaffs2 partition.
>
> For your reference.
>
> Will
>
> 2006/7/5, Christian Bünnig <christian.buennig at wbs-germany.de>:
> > I could not solve the problem, but I found a way to shift around.
> >
> > When creating a YAFFS2 image with mkyaffs2image, the files within the
> > directory to create an image from does not appear in the root directory
> > of the created image, they _exist_, but they are not shown. In deed they
> > exist as directories (try a cd into them). But i could not delete or
> > even list them (segmentation fault).
> >
> > Is this a bug in mkyaffs2image?
> >
> > A workaround is to
> >
> > -> create an empty yaffs2 image with mkyaffs2image:
> >
> > mkdir dummy
> > mkyaffs2image dummy img.yaffs
> >
> > -> write into flash:
> >
> > flash_eraseall /dev/mtd0
> > nandwrite -a -o /dev/mtd0 img.yaffs
> >
> > -> mount /dev/mtd0
> >
> > -> and write all files via cp into the filesystem
> >
> > that works for me, but it is not the best solution
> >
> > Christian
> >
> >
> >
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