mtd: partition "JFFS2 Filesystem" doesn't end on an erase block -- force read-only

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Hello everybody 

 I am trying to boot linux with mmu kernel from rocket boards (http://rocketboards.org/foswiki/documentation/niosiilinuxusermanual) in a ARRIA V GX STARTER KIT .  I can boot linux with filesystem from ram and looking at initialization i see a error mounting the filesystem  (mtd: partition "JFFS2 Filesystem" doesn't end on an erase block -- force read-only)  why this is happening?  U-Boot 2013.01.01-00121-g32c1d91-dirty (Mar 09 2016 - 11:43:09) CPU : Nios-II SYSID : 00001234, Fri Mar 04 21:14:35 2016 BOARD : ARRIA V ERROR: too many flash sectors *** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment Net: No ethernet found. Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0# # Booting kernel from Legacy Image at d6000000 ... Image Name: Linux-3.10.31-ltsi-05131-g55fdf0 Image Type: NIOS II Linux Kernel Image (gzip compressed) Data Size: 3384377 Bytes = 3.2 MiB Load Address: d0000000 Entry Point: d0000000 Verifying Checksum ... OK# # Flattened Device Tree blob at d5000000 Booting using the fdt blob at 0xd5000000 Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK Linux version 3.10.31-ltsi-05131-g55fdf0e-dirty (franz@franz-vpcpu-alloc: s0 r0 d32768 u32768 alloc=1*32768 pcpu-alloc: 0 Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 130048 Kernel command line: console=ttyJ0,115200 root=/dev/mtdblock0 rootfstype=jffs2 r w PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes) Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) Sorting __ex_table... Memory available: 250024k/7573k RAM (1567k kernel code, 6006k data) NR_IRQS:64 nr_irqs:64 0 Calibrating delay loop... 72.70 BogoMIPS (lpj=36352) pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301 Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 devtmpfs: initialized bio: create slab <bio-0> at 0 Switching to clocksource timer jffs2: version 2.2. (NAND) -® 2001-2006 Red Hat, Inc. msgmni has been set to 488 Block layer SCSI generic (bsg) driver version 0.4 loaded (major 254) io scheduler noop registered io scheduler deadline registered io scheduler cfq registered (default) ttyJ0 at MMIO 0x8000058 (irq = 1) is a Altera JTAG UART console enabled, bootconsole disabled console enabled, bootconsole disabled loop: module loaded 0.flash: Found 1 x16 devices at 0x0 in 16-bit bank. Manufacturer ID 0x000089 Chi p ID 0x008963 Intel/Sharp Extended Query Table at 0x010A Intel/Sharp Extended Query Table at 0x010A Intel/Sharp Extended Query Table at 0x010A Intel/Sharp Extended Query Table at 0x010A Intel/Sharp Extended Query Table at 0x010A Using buffer write method Using auto-unlock on power-up/resume cfi_cmdset_0001: Erase suspend on write enabled erase region 0: offset=0x0,size=0x8000,blocks=4 erase region 1: offset=0x20000,size=0x20000,blocks=1023 1 ofpart partitions found on MTD device 0.flash Creating 1 MTD partitions on "0.flash": 0x000006000000-0x000007fdffff : "JFFS2 Filesystem" mtd: partition "JFFS2 Filesystem" doesn't end on an erase block -- force read-on ly mousedev: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice Freeing unused kernel memory: 5536K (d0189000 - d06f1000) Starting logging: OK Initializing random number generator... done. Starting network... ip: socket: Function not implemented ip: socket: Function not implemented Welcome to Nios II nios2 login: root login: root login on 'ttyJ0'# ls# ls# cd ..# ls ?[1;34mbin?[0m ?[1;34mhome?[0m ?[1;36mlib32?[0m ?[1;34mmnt?[0m ?[1;34mroot?[0m ?[1;34msys?[0m ?[1;34mvar?[0m ?[1;34mdev?[0m ?[1;32minit?[0m ?[1;36mlinuxrc?[0m ?[1;34mopt?[0m ?[1;36mrun?[0m ?[1;34mtmp?[0m ?[1;34metc?[0m ?[1;34mlib?[0m ?[1;34mmedia?[0m ?[1;34mproc?[0m ?[1;34msbin?[0m ?[1;34musr?[0m#   and why these strange characters are appearing? "?[1;34mhome?[0m"  when i try to boot filesystem from cfi i have a error and the system crash........  could someone please help me?  thank you....

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I suspect this problem is caused by PAGE SIZE and ERASE BLOCK SIZE building rootfs  

 I am using a 1-Gb CFI-compatible synchronous flash, 16-bit data memory interface. PN PC28F00AP30BF  at u-boot i try flinfo and get  ARRIA V GX# > flinfo Bank# 1: CFI conformant flash (16 x 16) Size: 128 MB in 1024 Sectors Intel Extended command set, Manufacturer ID: 0x89, Device ID: 0x8963 Erase timeout: 4096 ms, write timeout: 2 ms Buffer write timeout: 500 ms, buffer size: 1024 bytes Sector Start Addresses: E0000000 RO E0008000 RO E0010000 RO E0018000 RO E0020000 RO E0040000 RO E0060000 RO E0080000 RO E00A0000 RO E00C0000 RO E00E0000 RO E0100000 RO E0120000 RO E0140000 RO E0160000 RO E0180000 RO E01A0000 RO E01C0000 RO E01E0000 RO E0200000 RO E0220000 RO E0240000 RO E0260000 RO E0280000 RO E02A0000 RO E02C0000 RO E02E0000 RO E0300000 RO E0320000 RO E0340000 RO E0360000 RO E0380000 RO E03A0000 RO E03C0000 RO E03E0000 RO E0400000 RO E0420000 RO E0440000 RO E0460000 RO E0480000 RO E04A0000 RO E04C0000 RO E04E0000 RO E0500000 RO E0520000 RO E0540000 RO E0560000 RO E0580000 RO E05A0000 RO E05C0000 RO E05E0000 RO E0600000 RO E0620000 RO E0640000 RO E0660000 RO E0680000 RO E06A0000 RO E06C0000 RO E06E0000 RO E0700000 RO E0720000 RO E0740000 RO E0760000 RO E0780000 RO E07A0000 RO E07C0000 RO E07E0000 RO E0800000 RO E0820000 RO E0840000 RO E0860000 RO E0880000 RO E08A0000 RO E08C0000 RO E08E0000 RO E0900000 RO E0920000 RO E0940000 RO E0960000 RO E0980000 RO E09A0000 RO E09C0000 RO E09E0000 RO E0A00000 RO E0A20000 RO E0A40000 RO E0A60000 RO E0A80000 RO E0AA0000 RO E0AC0000 RO E0AE0000 RO E0B00000 RO E0B20000 RO E0B40000 RO E0B60000 RO E0B80000 RO E0BA0000 RO E0BC0000 RO E0BE0000 RO E0C00000 RO E0C20000 RO E0C40000 RO E0C60000 RO E0C80000 RO E0CA0000 RO E0CC0000 RO E0CE0000 RO E0D00000 RO E0D20000 RO E0D40000 RO E0D60000 RO E0D80000 RO E0DA0000 RO E0DC0000 RO E0DE0000 RO E0E00000 RO E0E20000 RO E0E40000 RO E0E60000 RO E0E80000 RO E0EA0000 RO E0EC0000 RO E0EE0000 RO E0F00000 RO E0F20000 RO    i calculate the erase block => (size/sectors) * 1024 * 1024 = (128/1024) * 1024 * 1024 = 131072 bytes (0x20000)  but i dont know calculate the page size   please can someone tell me if my suspicions are correct?   if yes how i can calculate the true page size and erase block size??   lets go guys, help me please!!!!!

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hello guys.....good news...... 

 i have sucess booting from flash .........  the problem was the size of reserved memory for filesystem ......need to have size multiple of size of filesystem......