[U-Boot] Nand: Uboot-Environment at bad block

Daniel Gorsulowski Daniel.Gorsulowski at esd.eu
Thu Aug 4 12:07:00 CEST 2011


Arno Steffen wrote:
> In one of my devices, uboot-environment is located at a bad block.
> "save
> Saving Environment to NAND...
> Erasing Nand...
> Skipping bad block at  0x000c0000
> 
> Writing to Nand... FAILED!"
> 
> In my memory mapping I have already reseverd 2blocks.
> How can I setup uboot in a way, that it will look at c0000 or (in case
> of bad block) at the next block e0000?
> 
...
> 
> Maybe someone can give me an advice?
> Thanks
> - Arno
> 
...

Hello!

Is there a solution to this problem?
I was going to ask exactly the same question, but then I found this topic.

My board config (ARM platform) is
  #define CONFIG_ENV_IS_IN_NAND		1
  #define CONFIG_ENV_OFFSET		0xC0000
  #define CONFIG_ENV_SIZE		0x20000

Now there is a board with a bad block exactly at 0xC0000
  => nand bad

  Device 0 bad blocks:
    000c0000
    02f40000
    ...

If I try to write the environment, i get
  Saving Environment to NAND...
  Erasing Nand...
  Skipping bad block at  0x000c0000

  Writing to Nand... FAILED!

Any hints?

Kind regards
Daniel



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