I need some advice about bootldr's "nand force_erase" function
I had a previously working 2.6.25.2 root partition with 7 bad blocks, yaffs
cvs 05/03/09, to be struck by thousands of bad block and other assorted
messages upon the first and subsequent mountings using 2.6.29-rc7 yaffs
03-05/03/09 (I will post a detailed message to yaffs ML later). I've tried
to recover using rm -rf /mnt/root, including using earlier kernels/yaffs,
but rm -rf repeatedly segfaults.
Is bootldr's nand force_erase an option (given the wiki warning about it) to
aid return of the system to some sensible number of bad blocks, if so how do
I use it?
With thanks,
Jim
hw: Balloon 3.21 E1 Engineering build Samsung Nand K9F2G08UOM 256MB
wiki warning:
"If force_erase is specified then the bad block markers are erased too.
Don't do this unless you know what you are doing. It can be necessary when
doing yaffs development and you have eroneously marked a load a blocks bad."
http://www.balloonboard.org/balloonwiki/BootLoaderInfo
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