Re: Should /boot be ext2, instead of ext4?
On Sun, Sep 05, 2021 at 09:00:52AM +0900, Hideki Yamane wrote:
>On Sat, 4 Sep 2021 21:43:50 +0100
>Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> wrote:
>> Ummm. In my experience quite a number of older armel/armhf devices
>> booting using U-Boot may *not* be able to boot using ext4.
>
> I don't have any knowledge about U-Boot and arm devices, so here's
> a question. Is U-Boot different on each devices? It means, U-Boot
> on device A can read ext4 but on device B cannot.
That's correct. U-Boot is often forked by vendors, then built with
their own special config. Depending on the age of the board (and the
fork!), I've seen lots of different issues here. :-(
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