[U-Boot-Users] Boot Delay 0 !!!

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Mon Jul 18 14:48:31 CEST 2005


In message <Pine.LNX.4.44.0507181556040.31767-100000 at bharathi.midascomm.com> you wrote:
> 
> Recently one of our unit's flash is got corrupted. Bcoz of that, one 
> module is not started. So watch dog is rebooting the unit with-in 2 
> Sec after booting up.
> 
> We thought of booting that unit in NFS and mount the JFFS Data
> partition for recovering the data file, address book, from that flash.  
> Fortunately the boot delay is Zero. So we coun't do anything.
> 
> Is there any trick to get the prompt ??

Attach a BDI200, disable the watchdog in the initscript, and go on...

If you want, you can even erase and re-program the flash  environment
for example using data you got from another, working system.

[If you don't have a BDI2000: buy one.]

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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