u-boot report mmc size 0

Jean-Michel Bouffard jean-michel.bouffard at crc.ca
Tue Nov 13 15:20:17 CET 2007


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What I mean is that the SD card must be ext3 only in the case you want
to boot from it. I guess that uboot doesn't recognize the FAT partition.
But maybe ext2 could also boot? and as you said it would be preferable
for the SD.

Jean-Michel


andrew.rf.back at bt.com wrote:
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>> [mailto:device-owners-bounces at lists.openmoko.org] On Behalf 
>> Of Jean-Michel Bouffard
>> Sent: 13 November 2007 12:56
>> To: device-owners at lists.openmoko.org
>> Subject: Re: u-boot report mmc size 0
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>> Just a thought... have you formatted the SD to ext3 before to 
>> put the files? It is necessary.
> 
> Surely ext3 = journaling = more writes than ext2 != good on flash
> storage? I thought FAT and ext2 were the preferred file system formats
> for SD cards.
> 
> Andrew
> 

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