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From: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>
To: Benoit RAT <benoit@sevensols.com>
Cc: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: Check if valid kernel and/or FS
Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 13:10:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120525111020.GH2202@game.jcrosoft.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHvDM_cjKPKt205M3W+Cn8ns0+_GeYbj7xrtX6D+iiu9cJVt4g@mail.gmail.com>

On 12:08 Fri 25 May     , Benoit RAT wrote:
>    Hy barebox guy,
>    I was wondering if there was a good way to check if I have a correct
>    kernel and/or filesystem in my partition before loading them.
>    If it is not the case then I will check out for valid images in tftpboot
>    or prompt the barebox shell.
>    Regards, 
kernel yes rootfs no

but this not really the right way to do

the best wyay is to use bootcounter with a watchdog


so if after x times your boot is failling you can boot the failsafe or anthink
you want


>    And another question is how can i know that I am using the barebox
>    environment from nand flash instead of the one from a scripts?
in the log if see

envfs: wrong magic on 

which mean you load from the builtin

Best Regards,
J.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-05-25 11:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-25 10:08 Benoit RAT
2012-05-25 10:51 ` Eric Bénard
2012-05-25 10:58   ` Benoit RAT
2012-05-25 12:35     ` Sascha Hauer
2012-05-25 11:10 ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD [this message]
2012-05-25 11:12   ` Eric Bénard

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