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After building buildroot with Kernelimage and rootfs (jffs2) i flashed them to my board.

bootargs set to: mem=64M console=ttyS0,115200 root=/dev/mtdblock1 rw rootfstype=jffs2

Now when i boot i get the following error:

VFS: Cannot open root device "mtdblock1" or unknown-block(31,1) Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available partitions: 1f00 256 mtdblock0 (driver?) 1f01 261888 mtdblock1 (driver?) 1f02 8448 mtdblock2 (driver?) Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(31,1)

anyone know what went wrong?

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Check your kernel configuration. This message means that the kernel doesn't have a driver for what you've told it is the root device. Your command line looks plausible, so make sure you've included MTD block device support in the kernel (not as a module). Make sure you have jffs2 in the kernel as well.

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well i am using a default config which should do fine, the following options are set: CONFIG_MTD=y CONFIG_MTD_CONCAT=y CONFIG_MTD_PARTITIONS=y CONFIG_MTD_CMDLINE_PARTS=y CONFIG_MTD_CHAR=y CONFIG_MTD_BLOCK=y CONFIG_MTD_DATAFLASH=y CONFIG_MTD_NAND=y CONFIG_MTD_NAND_ATMEL=y – Gobliins Dec 9 '10 at 7:40
for jffs2 i included CONFIG_JFFS2=y – Gobliins Dec 9 '10 at 7:40
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