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Topic: creating partitions

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Greeting all,

                I have been using kamikaze in my gateworks avila platform.Presently i have 5 mtd partitions,is it possible to add some more partions to my kernel?Is it required to  be done in redboot ?Is it possible to create new partition from linux prompt using mtd commands?If anybody have any idea pls let me know.........




Warm Regards
Rinu M Antoney

It's not really practical to do it from Linux: you'll have to rebuild the kernel to allow modification of redboot partitions (they're read-only) and you'll need a program to modify the 'FIS directory' partition (such as fis.c). You also have to make sure redboot does not share the the same sector between 'FIS directory' and 'RedBoot config'; this may require rebuilding redboot.

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