[2008.X] Flashing the kernel live

Sarton O'Brien roguemoko at roguewrt.org
Fri Sep 26 03:16:15 CEST 2008


On Friday 26 September 2008 10:17:45 Kelvie Wong wrote:
> On Thursday, September 25, 2008 03:20:15 roguemoko at roguewrt.org wrote:
> > I've not tried cat before but have used mtd-utils. Sorry, that's what I
> > meant before. It's available at least in the testing repo but I've not
> > tested on the freerunner. There seems to minor limitations on what some
> > of the system tools are capable of, which is pretty typical of embedded
> > systems. Maybe the packaged tools will help.
>
> I have mtd-utils-1.0.0_git-r8 installed on the FR:
>
>
> [root at om-gta02 ~] $ nandwrite /dev/mtd3 uImage.bin
> Input file is not page aligned
> Data was only partially written due to error
>
> : Success
>
> It took a split second, so I doubt its definition of "Success" coincides
> with my own...


Ah ... looks like you may need to strip a header or something. We really need 
input from someone who generates the images.

Sarton




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