[U-Boot] "nand write.yaffs" is not working as expected

[Lei Wen]

Hi Peter,

On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Peter Pan <pppeterpppan at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm recently using YAFFS2 rootfs on our NAND flash. What I'm
> experiencing is that
> the u-boot console "nand write.yaffs" is not working.
> With this image file, I can successfully write it to nand flash if I
> boot into Linux. In
> Linux console, I run "nandwrite -a -o /dev/mtd4 yaffs2.img". And then,
> I can mount
> the partition and see what's in it.
>
> In u-boot, with the same yaffs2 image, I'm using "nand write.yaffs ${loadaddr}
> ${nandrootoffset} ${filesize}", and then I boot into Linux. I can only
> see a "lost+found"
> directory on that partition, nothing else.
>
> Anyone ever met the same problem with this "nand write.yaffs" command? I'm
> wondering maybe I did something wrong?

Have you dump the nand content, and compare with what the content
between what uboot does
and linux nandwrite does? Also the filesize should be multiple of
"writesize + oobsize"

Best regards,
Lei