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RE: Re: Redboot and edb7211
- To: gthomas at cambridge dot redhat dot com
- Subject: RE: [ECOS] Re: Redboot and edb7211
- From: "Trenton Adams" <trenton_adams at hotmail dot com>
- Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 15:58:04 -0600
- Cc: jlarmour at redhat dot com, ecos-discuss at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
I just did an "fis init -f" before reloading RedBoot again just to make sure
I WAS delusional! :) An "fis list" after booting for the first time does
reveal nothing in the list. However, doing an "fis init" before "fconfig"
is not required. This is what I expected since the file system has nothing
to do with the fconfig memory.
config information is stored in Flash right?
>From: Gary Thomas <gthomas@cambridge.redhat.com>
>To: Trenton Adams <trenton_adams@hotmail.com>
>CC: jlarmour@redhat.com, ecos-discuss@sourceware.cygnus.com
>Subject: RE: [ECOS] Re: Redboot and edb7211
>Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 15:40:00 -0600 (MDT)
>
>
>On 06-Jun-2001 Trenton Adams wrote:
> > I was searching through the discussion database about RedBoot, and found
>the
> > post below.
> >
> >>But presumably you can't do an fconfig until you've done an "fis init",
>so
> >>both steps are required in order.
> >
> > You don't actually require an "fis init" for RedBoot on the EDB7211
>board,
> > do you? All I did to get rid of the checksum error was run "fconfig"
>and
> > follow the prompts. Also, right after downloading the RedBoot ROM image
>I
> > typed "fis list", and it did display a list of images so I assume that
>the
> > FIS was initialized at startup.
> >
>
>'fis' and 'fconfig' are completely unrelated.
>
>'fis list' will gladly list garbage if that's what's in the Flash. To
>insure
>that what you've got is correct, use 'fis init'
>
> > Gary Thomas wrote:
> >>
> >>On 19-Apr-2001 Jonathan Larmour wrote:
> >> > Perhaps the message is the initial checksum error reported when no
>Flash
> >> > Image System has been created yet. If you do a "fis init" it may just
>go
> >> > away.
> >>
> >>These two items are not related in any way.
> >>
> >>* 'fis init' rebuilds only the FIS directory.
> >>
> >>* The warning about checksum failures is about the 'fconfig' database.
> >>One
> >> needs to run 'fconfig' to fix that.
> >
> > But presumably you can't do an fconfig until you've done an "fis init",
>so
> > both steps are required in order.
> >
> > Actually it's a good point that I don't think this is covered in the
> > RedBoot user's guide. I'll add it.
> >
> > Jifl
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