ts-7000
[Top] [All Lists]

Re: [ts-7000] Re: Mounting USB disk

To:
Subject: Re: [ts-7000] Re: Mounting USB disk
From: Jim Jackson <>
Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2005 19:57:58 +0100 (BST)

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




 
Yahoo! Groups Links

<*> To visit your group on the web, go to:
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ts-7000/

<*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
    

<*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:
    http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
 


<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>
Admin

Disclaimer: Neither Andrew Taylor nor the University of NSW School of Computer and Engineering take any responsibility for the contents of this archive. It is purely a compilation of material sent by many people to the birding-aus mailing list. It has not been checked for accuracy nor its content verified in any way. If you wish to get material removed from the archive or have other queries about the archive e-mail Andrew Taylor at this address: andrewt@cse.unsw.EDU.AU