On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 10:27 -0400, Jeff Angielski wrote:
Are there any partitioning requirements associated with loading files using the fatload command? I have found that if I try to load a file from the 2nd partition and the 1st partition exceeds a certain size, the fatload command fails.
U-boot is working correctly.
The problem is due to the fact that the FAT was incorrectly detected when the partition was mounted by the kernel. Even though the partition was formatted as FAT16, when it was mounted, the kernel thought it was FAT12 and updated the FAT accordingly. When u-boot came by later and tried to derefence the clusters from what it [correctly] thought was FAT16, it failed because the cluster numbers were all FAT12.
And depending on the size and location of the 2nd partition dictated whether the kernel/mount autodetection was correct.
The quick solution is to force the kenel to mount the partition as:
# mount -t msdos -o fat=16 /dev/xsysace/disc0/part2 /mnt/xsa
Jeff