On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 09:41:20AM +0100, Frantisek Dufka wrote: > Marius Gedminas wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 07:49:06PM +0100, Frantisek Dufka wrote: > >> You don't need scratchbox, any linux distribution will do. Follow this > >> guide to unpack and recreate initfs by Rodrigo Vivi > >> http://labs.vivi.eng.br/blog/?p=29 > > > > And here's where it breaks down: > > > > sudo modprobe mtdram total_size=65536 erase_size=256 > > > > 64 megs is not large enough for the OS2008 image. Anything larger > > causes modprobe mtdram to fail ("allocation failed: out of vmalloc space > > - use vmalloc=<size> to increase size.") > > Well this guide is for initfs which is ~2MB large. Oops! Yes, I encountered that error when I was looking at the rootfs, not initfs. My inattention. > There are more ways > to do it. For rootfs you can use variation of this > > mkdir rootfs > losetup /dev/loop0 rootfs.jffs2 > > modprobe mtd > > modprobe mtd_blkdevs > > modprobe mtdblock > > modprobe block2mtd block2mtd=/dev/loop0,131072 > > modprobe jffs2 > > mount -t jffs2 /dev/loop0 rootfs Thanks for the instructions! Marius Gedminas -- I'm a sorceress, not a miracle worker. -- The Spellsong War by L. E. Modesitt, Jr. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature Url : http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-users/attachments/20080117/fd40dea7/attachment-0001.pgp
