Hi.
I was playing around with the ditro-boot on NAND + UBI.
I was hit by a problem when loading files from ubifs.
My 'extlinux.conf' script looks like this:
--------------------------------- menu title UniPhier Boot Options.
timeout 5
default UniPhier
label UniPhier kernel ../Image initrd ../rootfs.cpio.gz fdtdir .. ----------------------------------
As doc/README.distro says, 'extlinux.conf' is generally located in 'extlinux' subdirectory.
So, the paths to kernel, initrd, fdt usually contain '..'
This totally works fine when loading files from a FAT-formated MMC device.
'run bootcmd_mmc0' successfully boots Linus in the disto-boot manner.
However, 'run bootcmd_ubifs0' fails to boot.
=> run bootcmd_ubifs0 ubi0: attaching mtd1 ubi0: scanning is finished ubi0: attached mtd1 (name "mtd=1", size 1023 MiB) ubi0: PEB size: 262144 bytes (256 KiB), LEB size: 253952 bytes ubi0: min./max. I/O unit sizes: 4096/4096, sub-page size 4096 ubi0: VID header offset: 4096 (aligned 4096), data offset: 8192 ubi0: good PEBs: 4088, bad PEBs: 4, corrupted PEBs: 0 ubi0: user volume: 1, internal volumes: 1, max. volumes count: 128 ubi0: max/mean erase counter: 1/0, WL threshold: 4096, image sequence number: 1407739552 ubi0: available PEBs: 0, total reserved PEBs: 4088, PEBs reserved for bad PEB handling: 76 UBIFS (ubi0:0): UBIFS: mounted UBI device 0, volume 0, name "boot", R/O mode UBIFS (ubi0:0): LEB size: 253952 bytes (248 KiB), min./max. I/O unit sizes: 4096 bytes/4096 bytes UBIFS (ubi0:0): FS size: 1014284288 bytes (967 MiB, 3994 LEBs), journal size 33521664 bytes (31 MiB, 132 LEBs) UBIFS (ubi0:0): reserved for root: 4952683 bytes (4836 KiB) UBIFS (ubi0:0): media format: w5/r0 (latest is w4/r0), UUID cc8f68da-030d-408c-a91f-f8cc195a2946, small LPT model Scanning ubi 0:... Found /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf Retrieving file: /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf 148 bytes read in 1 ms (144.5 KiB/s) UniPhier Boot Options. 1: UniPhier Enter choice: 1: UniPhier Retrieving file: /boot/extlinux/../rootfs.cpio.gz Skipping UniPhier for failure retrieving initrd SCRIPT FAILED: continuing...
The boot log says it succeeded in loading '/boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf' but failed in loading '/boot/extlinux/../rootfs.cpio.gz'
In my quick experiments,
load '/boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf' -> SUCCESS load '/boot/extlinux/../rootfs.cpio.gz' -> FAILURE load '/boot/rootfs.cpio.gz' -> SUCCESS load '/boot/extlinux/../Image' -> FAILURE load '/boot/Image' -> SUCCESS load '/boot/extlinux/../uniphier-ld20-ref.dtb' -> FAILURE load '/boot/uniphier-ld20-ref.dtb' -> SUCCESS
From the test results above,
my conclusion is loading a file path that contains '..' is not working.
Not sure where the root cause is. Anybody who has insight about this?