[U-Boot-Users] How to use u-boot to load kernel and file system to one partition in NAND

[Nancy Isaac]

-----Original Message-----
From: wd at denx.de [mailto:wd at denx.de] 
Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2006 2:47 PM
To: Nancy Isaac
Cc: Charles Krinke; u-boot-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [U-Boot-Users] How to use u-boot to load kernel and file
system to one partition in NAND 

In message <9BB2AECBBDD3E6499663C42C1DFD40AAE49768 at PETWM02.calix.local>
you wrote:
> 
> The problem I have is not really how to put the kernel in NAND, but
how
> to upgrade it.  I don't really want to overwrite what I have, instead
I
> want to load another image and have u-boot be able to pick up one or
the
> other.  This way, I can have two copies and in case the new version is
> bad, I can always have one to fall back on.  This is why, I was
thinking
> that either having a soft link to a file in a single partition nand or
> have three separate partitions (two of them for kernel, one for file
> system).

Why not simply using different names for both images,  and  switching
the  boot  filename in U-Boot? Remember that U-Boot is scriptable, so
this is a trivial thing to do.

> Thanks.  I will try this out.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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