u-boot report mmc size 0

[Andy Powell]

On Tuesday 13 November 2007 18:22, Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
> Andy Powell writes:
> >On Tuesday 13 November 2007 15:39, Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
> >> Jean-Michel Bouffard writes:
> >> >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.
> >>
> >> ext2 vs. ext3 wouldn't affect booting -- it's the same format, ext3 is
> >> simply a backward-compatible extension.
> >
> >Sorry this isn't the case. Having tried with an ext2 formatted card and
> >failing with a kernel  panic saying that it had tried ext3, cramfs .
> >Formatting the card ext3 works. It's simply that I forgot to build ext2
> >support into the kernel ie not as a module, which I've now done and will
> > test shortly.
>
> Huh -- I'd thought ext3 depended on ext2.  Didn't realize it had its
> own drivers in the kernel...  but fixing the kernel config seems like
> a *really* good idea!

Well, I could be doing something hugely wrong - but I'm obviously only doing 
it when I format it ext2 ;)

Andy / ScaredyCat