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Re: [ts-7000] Some Questions about the TS-7400

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Subject: Re: [ts-7000] Some Questions about the TS-7400
From: "Breton M. Saunders" <>
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 18:54:40 +0100
Daniel Rindt wrote:
> Am Freitag, 8. Juni 2007 18:20 schrieb Eddie Dawydiuk:
> Hello Eddie,
>   
>> The easiest way to create a custom filesystem or modify the existing
>> filesystem is to mount the Yaffs partition and read/write as you need.
>> e.g. Mount the partition and tar up the contents of the filesystem to
>> backup the filesystem.
>>     
> Sorry Eddie but how to mount?
>   
>> You can then create a new tarball with a modified 
>> filesystem(or new filesystem). Then simply mount the Yaffs partition,
>> recursively remove everything, then untar your new filesystem to the
>> Yaffs mount point.
>>     
> The thing i need is a YAFFS Image to quick boot my small system, and after i 
> want to write some log and database to the sdcard. But my kernel needs 
> bluetooth Support compiled into the kernel. So was my idea to place a kernel 
> into the YAFFS Image.
>   
Hi Daniel,
  That is not quite how it works: The kernel is loaded from a special
partition by the nand flash loader, and control is passed to it.

  I use my own nand flash loader, so I cannot really comment with
authority TS's; however, I think the basic procedure is roughly:
    1) Boot of the TS9441 (You will need one of these if you don't have
one).
    2) insmod ts7xxx_nand.o  (Install the nand flash driver)
    3) mtdcp myNewKernel /dev/mtd1
    4) mtdcp myNewRamdisk /dev/mtd2
    5) mtdcp myYAFF2Image /dev/mtd3

   Basically, you're writing the nand flash image onto /dev/mtd3 that
you made on your pc using the yaffs tools.  Your ramdisk image should be
a compressed ext2 filesystem, and at the end of its startup scripts, you
would mount /dev/mtd3 and chroot to it.

  Good luck!
    -Brett


 
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