Package: debian-installer Version: 20190702 Hi,
I'm using the current Buster kernel/initrd on my Seagate Blackarmor NAS. The mtd partition map ('mtdparts' cmdline variable) has no effect (even with 'cmdline' module loaded): [...] [ 2.312626] This architecture does not have kernel memory protection. [ 2.319057] Run /init as init process [ 2.659299] nand: device found, Manufacturer ID: 0xec, Chip ID: 0x75 [ 2.665704] nand: Samsung NAND 32MiB 3,3V 8-bit [ 2.670237] nand: 32 MiB, SLC, erase size: 16 KiB, page size: 512, OOB size: 16 [ 2.738418] mv643xx_eth: MV-643xx 10/100/1000 ethernet driver version 1.4 [ 2.778297] libphy: orion_mdio_bus: probed [ 2.798779] mv643xx_eth_port mv643xx_eth_port.0: DMA mask not set [ 2.824205] Scanning device for bad blocks [...] ~ # uname -a Linux (none) 4.19.0-5-marvell #1 Debian 4.19.37-5 (2019-06-19) armv5tel GNU/Linux ~ # cat /proc/cmdline console=ttyS0,115200 mtdparts=orion_nand:0xa0000@0x0(uboot),0x010000@0xa0000(env),0x500000@0xc0000(uimage),0x1a40000@0x5c0000(rootfs) ~ # cat /proc/mtd dev: size erasesize name mtd0: 02000000 00004000 "orion_nand" ~ # lsmod Module Size Used by ofpart 3447 0 cmdlinepart 2775 0 ehci_orion 3765 0 ehci_hcd 53205 1 ehci_orion usbcore 159269 2 ehci_orion,ehci_hcd mvmdio 4528 0 mv643xx_eth 27872 0 usb_common 3755 1 usbcore nls_base 5869 1 usbcore orion_nand 1914 0 nand 74301 1 orion_nand nand_ecc 3294 1 nand nand_bch 2470 1 nand bch 9396 1 nand_bch mtd 44525 6 nand_bch,ofpart,nand,cmdlinepart,orion_nand sha256_generic 9524 0 ~ # Manually removing/adding cmdline, mtd and nand modules does not help. The same device started with Debian Stretch has 4 MTD partitions enabled: [ 0.851760] nand: Samsung NAND 32MiB 3,3V 8-bit [ 0.856313] nand: 32 MiB, SLC, erase size: 16 KiB, page size: 512, OOB size: 16 [ 0.863602] Scanning device for bad blocks [ 1.095922] 4 cmdlinepart partitions found on MTD device orion_nand [ 1.102165] Creating 4 MTD partitions on "orion_nand": [ 1.107309] 0x000000000000-0x0000000a0000 : "uboot" [ 1.112995] 0x0000000a0000-0x0000000b0000 : "env" [ 1.118397] 0x0000000c0000-0x0000005c0000 : "uimage" [ 1.124306] 0x0000005c0000-0x000002000000 : "rootfs" [ 1.131105] mtd: device 3 (rootfs) set to be root filesystem Kind regards, Chris