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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I have been trying to make uboot boot my choice of distro (using
ext2) on an SD card for quite a while without success. I had done it in
the past with FAT+ext2 partitions, but never with a single ext2
partition. As a matter of fact, uboot had never been able to show the
contents of my SD card’s ext2 partitions. So I did some googling
and found a discussion that seemed to relate to my problem: <a
href="http://www.nabble.com/Problems-with-ext2ls---SD-ts22728281.html#a22756563">http://www.nabble.com/Problems-with-ext2ls---SD-ts22728281.html#a22756563</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I tried the following:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>mke2fs -I 128 /dev/sd*<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>copied a rootfs from one of the working distros, started uboot,
mmcinit, and lo and behold, ext2ls listed the contents of the partition, and
uboot booted it!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>I added the info to the discussion of the Booting_from_SD page, but I
thought I’d bring it up here as well since I haven’t seen this
discussed in the wiki or in these lists. Is this well known? Do we
know if there is a uboot capable of booting cards partitioned by modern
mkfs?</span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Russell Dwiggins</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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