Hi Jerry,
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 07:07:32PM +0000, Jerry Kirk wrote:
> We are updating from 2012-03 to 2012-09 and after flashing our SOM
> (Phytec PCM043 - imx35) we starting getting this error:
>
> barebox:/ erase /dev/nor0.barebox
>
> erase: Operation not permitted
>
> It worked the first time, when overwriting the 2012-03 image and booted, etc.
> We have tried a few intermediate Barebox versions and think it worked up to 2012-
> 07.
>
> Any ideas what we now need to do to be able to overwrite Barebox?
I think you are the victim of a bug fix ;)
You probably registered the partition readonly. (see the 'ro'
flag in the mtdparts variable). Since some releases barebox
actually honors this flag:
commit a4fde70067b6113fd9dc7a4295ebd3f55b756db6
Author: Jan Luebbe <jlu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon Jun 25 14:03:27 2012 +0200
fs/devfs.c: disallow write and erase if a partition is read-only
Signed-off-by: Jan Luebbe <jlu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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