[Avila] fis load question

[Ahmet Basagalar]

I have figured this out, so let me answer my own question as it may be 
helpful to other folks in the future. You need to use -s option as well when 
you create the fis partition, otherwise 'fis load' will only load the size 
of the image that was used for the initial 'fis create', although you may 
give it a larger partition.

Ahmet
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ahmet Basagalar" <ahmet at thebluezone.com>
To: "avila" <avila at lists.unixstudios.net>
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 12:06 PM
Subject: [Avila] fis load question
Subject: [Avila] > Hi,
>
> I have a 6 MB partition on the flash for the ramdisk image. I am using 
> only 2.8 MB at the moment. I am doing the initial load through redboot 
> command line and everything works. But when I want to upgrade the ramdisk 
> image through linux by using netflash the following issue happens:
>
> If I upgrade an image that is larger than 2.8 MB then in the next reboot 
> the system does not boot. It is because "fis load" command does not load 
> the additional data to the memory. I have verified this by using memory 
> dump in redboot CLI. So let us say if I upgraded an image that is 3.0 MB 
> then only 2.8 MB portion of it is loaded in the memory and the rest is not 
> loaded.
>
> I do not know how to fix this issue. You would expect it to copy all the 6 
> MB of the flash since the image is defined to be 6 MB long but apparently 
> it is not doing that. There should be another parameter that needs to be 
> set I believe.
>
> Thanks,
> Ahmet
>
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