From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from metis.ext.pengutronix.de ([2001:6f8:1178:4:290:27ff:fe1d:cc33]) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.80.1 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1YIjpE-0003K3-Rw for barebox@lists.infradead.org; Tue, 03 Feb 2015 20:11:58 +0000 Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2015 21:11:34 +0100 From: Sascha Hauer Message-ID: <20150203201134.GQ12209@pengutronix.de> References: <29A2697B0516A946B1023D5E798DFCF67BAB6E85@mail-ying> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <29A2697B0516A946B1023D5E798DFCF67BAB6E85@mail-ying> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: "barebox" Errors-To: barebox-bounces+u.kleine-koenig=pengutronix.de@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: saveenv & erase with bad blocks present To: "Boulais, Marc-Andre" Cc: "barebox@lists.infradead.org" On Tue, Feb 03, 2015 at 04:38:42PM +0000, Boulais, Marc-Andre wrote: > Hi, > I have flashed Barebox-2015.02.0 on my omap4 setup (using the Barebox update command) and I am now trying to modify the environment from the Barebox prompt. I have modified the env/config file and I would like to save my changes to NAND. > > For this task, I call the "saveenv" command and I get this result: > > barebox@Phytec phyCORE-OMAP4460:/ saveenv > saving environment > saveenv: No space left on device > > The "devinfo" command indicates to me that the /dev/nand0.bareboxenv partition is 128 Kb. > Just to be sure, I erase it and get the following error: > > barebox@Phytec phyCORE-OMAP4460:/ erase /dev/nand0.bareboxenv.bb > nand: nand_erase_nand: attempt to erase a bad block at page 0x00000140 > erase: I/O error > > So I guess I am a bit confused here. > 1) Is "saveenv" the right command to save my changes to the environment ? Yes. > 2) How can I erase a NAND partition that has bad blocks ? when erasing a .bb device (which you did above) should let barebox just skip the bad blocks. > 3) Can bad blocks be marked by software or are they all marked by the manufacturer ? You can mark blocks as bad using the 'nand' command. barebox tries to erase a bad block at page 0x140 which is 0x140 * 2048 = 0xa0000. In the device trees I see the environment partition starts at 0x100000. Could you tell me which config you built, post the startup messages from barebox and the output of 'ls -l dev/nand0*'? Sascha -- Pengutronix e.K. | | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | Peiner Str. 6-8, 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 | _______________________________________________ barebox mailing list barebox@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/barebox