[U-Boot] u-boot ls cmd oops Unknown node type.

H. Johnny johnny.hung543 at gmail.com
Wed Jul 28 05:23:16 CEST 2010


Too late to inform that the u-boot oops because u-boot is 1.3.0
doesn't support JFFS2 summary and my kernel enable it. Disable JFFS2
summary support in Linux kernel then u-boot oops disappear.

BRs, H. Johnny
2010/5/13 H. Johnny <johnny.hung543 at gmail.com>:
> Hi All,
>
> It seems the following answer is wrong. The u-boot cannot recognize
> the JFFS2's files after write files to JFFS2 many times in linux.
> I guess maybe it's a JFFS2 compatible problem in u-boot and linux
> kernel. Does anyone know what combination of u-boot and linux kernel
> version is compatible for JFFS2?
> I think to upgrade u-boot or downgrade kernel could be a solution for
> this problem.
>
> BRs, H. Johnny
>
> 2010/5/7 H. Johnny <johnny.hung543 at gmail.com>:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> The ls command in u-boot can list contains of JFFS2 filesystem. It
>> works fine after copy (cp.b $memaddr $noraddr) jffs2 image file to
>> flash in u-boot.
>> After boot to linux system and copy a file to JFFS2 filesystem and do
>> sync, reboot then got following message in u-boot.
>> The kernel I used is 2.6.23 and u-boot is 1.3.0.
>>
>> ### JFFS2 loading 'image1' to 0x400000
>> Scanning JFFS2 FS: .- Unknown node type: 2006 len 684 offset 0x7ffd54
>>                                               \
>> Unknown node type: 2006 len 764 offset 0x83fd04
>>                                                             |
>> Unknown node type: 2006 len 616 offset 0x85fd98
>> ....
>>
>> Google this message and got some information, but is it true reason?
>> below is from google.
>> http://docwiki.gumstix.org/Tutorial
>> ==
>> ### JFFS2 loading 'boot/uImage' to 0xa2000000
>> Scanning JFFS2 FS: .  Unknown node type: 2006 len 4288 offset 0x5ef40
>> Unknown node type: 2006 len 6480 offset 0x7e6b0
>> / Unknown node type: 2006 len 4988 offset 0x9ec84
>> . Unknown node type: 2006 len 7368 offset 0xbe338
>> - Unknown node type: 2006 len 10128 offset 0xdd870
>>
>> that's currently normal. The 2.6.15 kernel has changed the JFFS2
>> filesystem in a way that cause u-boot to report these unknown
>> node-type messages. You can ignore the messages
>> ==
>>
>> Thaks for any reply.
>> --
>> [To be different, do different. To be appear different, change the name.]
>> H. Johnny
>>
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> --
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> H. Johnny
>



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