Difference between revisions of "Mesh/Flashing extender nodes"

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Although U-Boot can support two protocols for transfering files, kermit or y-modem, the bootloader does not support the <tt>loadb</tt> or <tt>loady</tt>. Minicom only supports y-modem protocol.
Although U-Boot can support two protocols for transfering files, kermit or y-modem, the bootloader does not support the <tt>loadb</tt> or <tt>loady</tt>. Minicom only supports y-modem protocol.


We do not have to resort to a direct serial file transfer however.
We do not have to resort to a direct serial file transfer however. The 'mtdparts' command that is used to define flash memory partitions can be used to reset the partition table to the defaults before running 'urescue' to start the TFTP server.


  ar7240> help mtdparts
  mtdparts
      - list partition table
  mtdparts delall
      - delete all partitions
  mtdparts del part-id
      - delete partition (e.g. part-id = nand0,1)
  mtdparts add <mtd-dev> <size>[@<offset>] [<name>] [ro]
      - add partition
  mtdparts default
      - reset partition table to defaults
   ar7240> mtdparts default
   ar7240> mtdparts default
   ar7240> urescue
   ar7240> urescue
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