Flash an UBI/UBIFS root filesystem
Introduction
This section describes how to load a UBI root filesystem image into the NAND FLASH of the board with SAM-BA and right through the U-Boot command line.
Note that the root filesystem is installed at offset 0x800000 in the NAND FLASH. From a Linux kernel point of view, this corresponds to the index 0 of the MTD subsystem device (/dev/mtd1 and /dev/mtdblock1).
Using SAM-BA
1. Choose the NandFlash media tab in the SAM-BA GUI.
2. Initialize the media choosing the
Enable NandFlash action in the
Scripts rolling menu and press
Execute.
3. Select
Enable OS PMECC parameters in the
Scripts rolling menu and press
Execute. Configure ECC as done on the following picture:
Beware: the
trimffs option must be selected for UBI filesystem. Then press the
OK button.
4. To erase only the nand flash rootfs partition, type this command after the SAM-BA prompt:
NANDFLASH::EraseBlocks 0x800000 0xFFFFFFF
The SAM-BA EraseBlocks command takes two parameter: a start and an end address of FLASH that you want to erase.
5. Press
Send File Name Browse button and choose your UBI filesystem.
6. Enter the proper address on media in the
Address text field. You can find the product map in
GettingStarted_9x5. So in our case, the value for the filesystem is 0x800000.
7. Press
Send File button. A
Please Wait... dialog window is appearing: wait for the end of the flashing process.
8. Close SAM-BA, remove the USB cable.
Ok, now you must have the Linux root filesystem flashed on your board.
Using U-Boot
You can also flash root filesystem image with U-Boot. You must have configured your network access in U-Boot as the binary image will be transferred to the target using TFTP protocol.
Download your ubi file (choose the proper name instead of
<my_rootfs.ubi>):
tftp 0x22000000 <my_rootfs.ubi>
Erase the rootfs flash partition (248 MB):
nand erase 0x800000 0xf800000
And write the downloaded ubi file on the flash memory. You must use the nand write.trimffs function to avoid ECC errors.
nand write.trimffs 0x22000000 0x800000 0x8e0000
If the default arguments are not correct, you can also set them with this command:
setenv bootargs 'mem=128M console=ttyS0,115200 mtdparts=atmel_nand:8M(bootstrap/uboot/kernel)ro,-(rootfs) root=/dev/mtdblock1 rw rootfstype=ubifs ubi.mtd=1 root=ubi0
:rootfs'
Additional information
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