[Balloon] another kernel panic

[Chris Jones]

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)

Chris

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