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Updating U-Boot

Can you link to instructions on updating the u-boot. I think this is it here.

sync after umount?

Using a sync after the umount is completely redundant right? After umount there is no block part in the kernel doing any caching, so there is nothing to actually sync anymore. So I think the sync should be removed. Bram

Benefits

What are the benefits of booting from SD? Does it improve the performance in terms of speed and/or non-SD RAM/ROM memory usage of the device? Pander 11:05, 20 July 2009 (UTC)

Take care with inode size when formatting ext2 partitions

I noticed uboot was having difficulty reading the cards I had formatted using my linux box. Google to the rescue, I found the following discussion: Uboot Discussion

So apparently uboot is currently only reading ext2 partitions with an inode size of 128. Recent default is 256. I wonder if the mkfs with our distros defaults to 128?

Workaround: mke2fs -I 128 /dev/sd*

Hopefully uboot will be updated to allow default inodes to be recognized.

--Undrwater 06:11, 14 August 2009 (UTC)Russell Dwiggins