[Buildroot] AT91SAM9263 JFFS2 problems
Hans-Christian Egtvedt
hans-christian.egtvedt at atmel.com
Thu Sep 25 07:10:05 UTC 2008
On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:05:33 +0200
"Matt Wood" <mattwood2000 at gmx.net> wrote:
Hi Matt (-;
> Hi, has anyone seen problems booting an AT91SAM9263-EK board with the
> JFFS2 filesystem created by buildroot? I used to be able to boot no
> problem with an older version of buildroot, but not with the latest.
> I'm getting the following kernel panic:
>
> VFS: Mounted root (jffs2
> filesystem). Freeing init memory:
> 136K Warning: unable to open an initial
> console. Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found. Try passing
> init= option to kernel.
>
> I've loaded the NAND flash as follows:
>
If your NAND flash is properly partitioned in the board code, the
layout will show up as the following below.
> 0x00000000 - at91bootstrap
>
mtd0
> 0x00020000 - u-boot
>
mtd1
> 0x00200000 - kernel
>
mtd2
> 0x00400000 - JFFS2
>
mtd3
> My bootargs are "mem=64M console=ttyS0,115200 root=/dev/mtdblock1 rw
> rootfstype=jffs2"
>
Try root=mtd3, you do not need to specify /dev/mtdblock1.
> The strange thing is if I change the bootargs to root=/dev/mtdblock0,
> I get a ton of jffs2 oob and ecc errors, but after a while, it gives
> me the login prompt.
>
This is just weird, could you post the output from the kernel boot at
http://pastebin.org/ or something similar?
> My JFFS2 memory type options are:
> Page Size: 0x800
> Erase Block Size: 0x20000
> Not using clean marker.
>
These options seems right, 2048 bytes pages and 128 kB erase blocks.
> These options never gave me a problem before.
>
> The only other thing I can think of is a message I get after a build
> of buildroot about skipping dev, tmp, and etc while creating the RFS:
>
> table='target/device/Atmel/root/device_table.txt'
> mkfs.jffs2: skipping device_table entry '/dev': no parent directory!
> mkfs.jffs2: skipping device_table entry '/tmp': no parent directory!
> mkfs.jffs2: skipping device_table entry '/etc': no parent directory!
I see these as well, but they do not impact the generated image.
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Best regards,
Hans-Christian Egtvedt
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