Gphone isn't open, linux dev not possible

Torfinn Ingolfsen tingox at gmail.com
Sun Nov 25 13:03:44 CET 2007


Hello,

On Nov 22, 2007 2:00 AM, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer <mickey at openmoko.org> wrote:
>
> Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
>
> > Hello,
>
> > I'm on Ubuntu 7.10 (i386).
> > What do I need in addition to the loop module:
>
> > root at kg-home:~# losetup -v /dev/loop0
> > /home/tingo/work/openmoko/qtopia-rootfs.2-10020615.jffs2
> > /home/tingo/work/openmoko/qtopia-rootfs.2-10020615.jffs2: No such file
> > or directory
> > root at kg-home:~# losetup /dev/loop0
> > loop: can't get info on device /dev/loop0: No such device or address
> > root at kg-home:~# lsmod | grep loop
> > loop                   19076  0
> > root at kg-home:~#
>
> The loopback won't help you. You need to use mtdram to mimick an mtd
> device in your RAM, then dd the contents into an mtdblock and mount it.

Aha.
Something like this then:
http://wiki.buici.com/wiki/Mounting_JFFS2_Filesystem_in_RAM

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.
-- 
Regards,
Torfinn Ingolfsen




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