<div dir="ltr">2008/10/19 Joel Newkirk <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:freerunner@newkirk.us">freerunner@newkirk.us</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> I haven't tried this yet, but when I've booted from SD (a bigger one than<br><div><div class="Wj3C7c">
> the original 512 MB that's delivered with the FR), why shouldn't I be<br>
able<br>
> to erase and flash /dev/mtd kernel and rootfs like I'm doing with uboot<br>
> environment? I'll give it a try next time I've mashed up the Om2008.8<br>
that<br>
> I<br>
> have currently in NAND.<br>
<br>
</div></div>Yes, if you've booted entirely off the SD card then changes to internal<br>
flash wouldn't hose your running environment. I've been imagining a flash<br>
util plus kernel in a uImage on SD, net result that you stuff the flash<br>
util uImage and the rootfs, kernel uImage or whatever on the SD with it,<br>
boot the FR from SD and it pops up the flash menu.</blockquote><div><br>Now a GUI is a mini-overkill. It's just 2 commands, flash_eraseall and nandwrite, from the shell prompt. You boot from SD (it's always good to have a different distribution on the SD card), download the images and just flash them.<br>
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