[Balloon] Re: another kernel panic

[Wookey]

+++ Chris Jones [04-12-07 09:08 +0000]:
> Glen VanMilligan wrote:
> >Thanks for all your support.  I need help again with the root file system. 
> >Last friday I had the 2.4.25 zdImage downloaded and working.  I was 
> >loading some kernel modules when I thought that maybe I should be working 
> >with a clean root file system.  So I did the "load root" command at the 
> >boot loader, reset the machine and found that I now get a kernel panic 
> >again.  Since then, this morning I have tried again with no results.  What 
> >did I miss? do I need to reload the kernel once I install the root? or are 
> >there other parameter I should have set?
> 
> I have found that loading a yaffs image into NAND really needs a clean 
> partition to start with, otherwise the filesystem gets hopelessly 
> confused: symptoms have ranged from files which won't delete, all the 
> way up to kernel panics. To fix this do:
> 
> nand erasechip
> yaffs reset
> load boot
> load root
> 
> (note that nand erasechip erases both boot and root partitions, so 
> that's why you have to reload the kernel too)

aha -that would explain why fillballoon acquired this option. Care to add
this info to the wiki somewhere appropriate?

Wookey
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