[Avila] netflash update question

[Tim Harvey]

The current redboot that is on the GW BSP CD checks the checksum of the image against a checksum in the FIS directory.  Therefore, if you flash a partition outside of redboot (such as you are with netflash in linux) this checksum will fail.  You need to rebuild redboot with FIS checksum disabled.  I don't know of any existing code that will update the FIS partition checksum within linux.

Tim

----- Original Message ----
From: Ahmet Basagalar <ahmet at thebluezone.com>
To: avila at lists.unixstudios.net
Sent: Wednesday, July 5, 2006 8:31:50 AM
Subject: [Avila] netflash update question
Subject: [Avila] Hi,

I have tried to update ramdisk file system on the flash by netflash under 
Linux prompt. Everything went normal but when I rebooted redboot complained 
about "ROM Checksum Error" and also I noticed that the filesystem was 
corrupt ( kernel was able to mount it but some symbolic links ..etc. were 
disappeared)

I have called netflash similar to the following
netflash -knrb /dev/mtd2 tftp_server /tftpboot/image.gz

Any ideas what may have caused this issue?

Also is there a way in snapgear that I can combine the kernel and root file 
system images into a single image and use that instead.

Thanks,
Ahmet 

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