[ECOS] Redboot partition table not detected

[ECOS] Redboot partition table not detected

[Mike C]

Hi,

I have an IXP465 board, 32MB Flash, running Redboot 1.02. I have 
compiled a 2.4.31 based kernel to support "Redboot partition table 
parsing" but when I start the kernel it does not pick it up. See logs 
below:

RedBoot(tm) bootstrap and debug environment [ROM]
Red Hat certified release, version 1.02 - built 16:09:14, Jul 17 2006

Platform: ADI Sidewinder IXP465 Reference Platform (XScale) BE
Copyright (C) 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 Red Hat, Inc.

RAM: 0x00000000-0x08000000, [0x00028870-0x07fc1000] available
FLASH: 0x50000000 - 0x54000000, 516 blocks of 0x00020000 bytes each.

RedBoot>
RedBoot> fis list
Name              FLASH addr  Mem addr    Length      Entry point
RedBoot           0x50000000  0x50000000  0x00080000  0x00000000
zImage            0x50080000  0x50080000  0x00200000  0x02400000
ramdisk           0x50280000  0x50280000  0x00A00000  0x02400000
config            0x50C80000  0x50C80000  0x00080000  0xFFFFFFFF
logs              0x50D00000  0x50D00000  0x00800000  0xFFFFFFFF
FIS directory     0x53F60000  0x53F60000  0x0001F000  0x00000000
RedBoot config    0x53F7F000  0x53F7F000  0x00001000  0x00000000

When I start linux I get:

IXP4xx Flash: Found 1 x16 devices at 0x2000000 in 16-bit mode
cfi_cmdset_0001: Erase suspend on write enabled
0: offset=0x0,size=0x8000,blocks=4
1: offset=0x20000,size=0x20000
,blocks=255
2: offset=0x2000000,size=0x8000,blocks=4
3: offset=0x2020000,size=0x20000,blocks=255
Using buffer write method
No RedBoot partition table detected in IXP4xx Flash
Using static MTD partitions.
Creating 3 MTD partitions on "IXP4xx Flash":
0x00000000-0x00080000 : "RedBoot"
0x03f60000-0x03f7f000 : "FIS directory"
mtd: partition "FIS directory" doesn't end on an erase block -- force 
read-only
0x03f7f000-0x03f80000 : "RedBoot config"
mtd: partition "RedBoot config" doesn't start on an erase block boundary 
-- force read-only

And /proc/mtd reflects that:

# cat /proc/mtd
dev:    size   erasesize  name
mtd0: 00080000 00020000 "RedBoot"
mtd1: 0001f000 00020000 "FIS directory"
mtd2: 00001000 00020000 "RedBoot config"

I realise this is due to it not finding the RedBoot partition table, but 
I cannot figure out why it can't find it.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Mike

p.s. Also I notice that the email list program rejects Gmail messages, 
citing "Invalid mime type "text/html" detected in message text or 
attachment. Please send plain text messages only.". This is quite 
frustrating as the only way I can send this email is through another 
account with inconsistent from: headers.

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Re: [ECOS] Redboot partition table not detected

[Andrew Lunn]

> p.s. Also I notice that the email list program rejects Gmail messages, 
> citing "Invalid mime type "text/html" detected in message text or 
> attachment. Please send plain text messages only.". This is quite 
> frustrating as the only way I can send this email is through another 
> account with inconsistent from: headers.

Is it not possible to configure gmail to send plain ASCII email? We
get lots of questions from engineers who want to remain anonymous and
so use gmail.

      Andrew

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Re: [ECOS] Redboot partition table not detected

[Gary Thomas]

Andrew Lunn wrote:
>> p.s. Also I notice that the email list program rejects Gmail messages, 
>> citing "Invalid mime type "text/html" detected in message text or 
>> attachment. Please send plain text messages only.". This is quite 
>> frustrating as the only way I can send this email is through another 
>> account with inconsistent from: headers.
>>     
>
> Is it not possible to configure gmail to send plain ASCII email? We
> get lots of questions from engineers who want to remain anonymous and
> so use gmail.
>   

Yes, it is possible; just click on "plain text" in the composer window 
(next to the formatting tools)

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Re: [ECOS] Redboot partition table not detected

[Mike C]

> Yes, it is possible; just click on "plain text" in the composer window
> (next to the formatting tools)

Ah thank you, I can't believe I haven't noticed that option before
(I've been hunting around settings for it).

Thanks,

Mike

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