Hi Faheem and David,
> Thanks. You are right. "block device emulating a mtd" works for me now. > > Alex Leung. > > 2008/8/18 Faheem Pervez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Hi, >> >> mtdram requires 88mb of raw ram on a 2gb system to mount a ~2Mb initfs >> image, i don't think it will work well with a rootfs. >> Use the "block device emulating a mtd" and mount the image read only. >> >> Tar it up and use mtd-tools to make a new rootfs.jffs2 >> >> Regards, >> >> Faheem >> >> P.S Please excuse the messiness of this email, typing (badly) from a N800 >> with low battery. >> >> On 8/18/08, Alex Leung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I tried to follow the steps listed below: >>> http://maemo.org/community/wiki/ModifyingRootImage/ >>> >>> to mount a jffs2 file system using the "kernel memory emulating a MTD via >>> mtdram" appraoch. >>> >>> but as soon as I executed the dd command, I will be hit by the below >>> error: >>> dd: writing to `/tmp/mtdblock0': No space left on device >>> >>> My ubuntu's version is 7.10. the rootfs image I am trying to load is the >>> rootfs.jffs2 extracted from the OS2008 2.2007.51-3 image, using the flasher >>> tool. >>> >>> Thanks for your gracious help in sharing your experience in this matter. >>> >>> Alex Leung. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> maemo-developers mailing list >>> maemo-developers@maemo.org >>> https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers >>> >>> >> >
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