GSM Firmware Flashed, now UBIFS problem and Kernel Panic

[giacomo 'giotti' mariani]

Hello,
>>>>> If there is a better solution that preserves the FS,
>>>>> >>>>  I would be happy to learn about it.
>>>>> >>>>  
>>>> >>>  I wonder if it would be possible to boot into a distro on the sd card
>>>> >>>  and mount the nand partitions. Then you could save /home. Just a thought.
>>>> >>>  
>>> >>  Yes, it is: just mount  -t jffs2 /dev/mtdblock6 /mountpoint
>>> >>  
>> >  Thank you all for your input..
>> >
>> >  I put a qtmoko v35 on an SD card.. an on terminal I did:
>> >
>> >  mkdir /home/root/nandfs
>> >  mount -t ubifs /dev/mtdblock6 /home/root/nandfs
>> >
>> >  but sadly that doesn't work.. dmesg tells me:
>> >
>> >  UBIFS error: ubifs_get_sb: cannot open "/dev/mtdblock6", error -22
>> >
>> >  Any ideas?
>> >
>> >  Cheers,
>> >  
> I think you need to attach the ubifs before mounting.  See
> http://openmoko-public-mailinglists.1958.n2.nabble.com/UBI-success-story-td4218730.html
> for the steps, though unless you want to reformat, you shouldn't follow
> all of them.
>
> Ben
Alternatively, you can follow http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/UBIFS :
# apt-get install mtd-utils # if you are on qtmoko

# ubiattach /dev/ubi_ctrl -O 2048 -m 6
# mount -t ubifs ubi0:om-gta02-rootfs /media/om
# ls /media/om

Anyway it could be a problem related to ubifs instability, which is a 
topic recently discussed in mailing list [1]. You can follow that tread 
and try to:

> Guy who'll have ubifs trubles please try to:
>
> 1. disable bulk read in fstab and check if problem will still exist.
> 2. do nanddump and post it or try to reproduce bug with nandsim. (i
> guess ubifs guys can fix problem in case if such dump exist quite fast)

Regards
   Giacomo


[1] http://www.mail-archive.com/community@lists.openmoko.org/msg62518.html

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