On Sat, 2 Jul 2005, nitelitephoto wrote:
> > > I have a 1GB USB disk with partion table and mkfs.jffs2. It seems
> > > that the Linux system provided with TS-7250 cannot mount it, correct?
> > > Only fat and ext2 are supported?
> > >
> > > $ mount /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 /mnt/usb
> > > VFS: Can't find ext2 filesystem on dev sd(8,1).
> > > yaffs: Attempting MTD mount on 8.1, "08:01"
> > > FAT: bogus logical sector size 34276
> > > VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev 08:01.
> > > mount: Mounting /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 on /mnt/usb
> > > failed: Invalid argument
> >
> > It may be possible to build yourself a kernel with the support in it, or
> > if jffs2 support is available as a module compile yourself the
> module and
> > install it.
> >
> > However, I have to ask why are you using jffs2 ? I have seen
> comments that
> > jffs2 is not a good file system for CF. I thought I understood that to
> > support jffs2 you needed better access to the underlying flash
> > infrastructure than the CF interface gives?
>
> Hi Jim,
>
> The TS-7250 has limited space on the onboard flash. I planned to put
> everything (Debian, my own programs, and data) on the USB disk and
> chroot to it.
>
> I don't know much about jffs2. I tried to use it because that's what
> the onboard flash uses.
>
> Any suggestions? Can I boot directly to a USB disk?
Use an ext2 file system
As far as I know you cannot boot from a USB disk
The TS7200 has an onboard CF interface from which you can boot - I do this
on my board.
Jim
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