Re: mounting MMC card

Craig,

        Thanks for the feedback.  Your explanation makes perfect 
sense and now everythng works as advertised.  This issue just 
illustrates how hard it is to keep documentation up to date for a 
moving target!  :-)

John

> Message: 3
> Subject: Re: [Gumstix-users] mounting MMC card
> Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 10:58:39 -0700
> From: Craig Hughes <craig@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: gumstix-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Reply-To: gumstix-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> John,
> 
> I think that did in fact change a while ago -- you now need to either 
> edit /etc/fstab to mount the mmc at boot (change "noauto" on the mmc 
> line to "defaults"), or else mount manually with
> 
> mount /mnt/mmc
> 
> The auto-mounting is removed since now with connex, there isn't 
> necessarily an mmc card there, and if you have a cfstix, you don't 
> want the MMC drivers loading, or they step on the CF drivers.
> 
> C
> 
> On Jul 12, 2005, at 8:17 AM, John Finkenbine wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> >     Just got a new 400 MHz basix waysmall and I have a question
> > about mounting an MMC card.  According to the latest "Getting
> > Started" (Feb. 7, 2005) on the gumstix wiki site, "The most recent
> > filesystem automatically mounts the MMC when you boot the device".
> > This document suggests that it can be mounted as /mmc, however no
> > such directory exists, although there is /mnt/mmc which shows
> > nothing in it after booting (there *are* files on the MMC card!). 
> > So, I  cannot see that the MMC is actually mounting.
> >
> >     I know the situation re: mounting MMC cards has changed
> > from time to time depending on the revision of the root filesystem,
> > so I'm wondering what is really supposed to be happening and how I
> > can get the MMC card to mount automatically (or even manually).
> >
> >     My basix has u-boot 1.1.2  Feb. 11, 2005.  Uname -a gives
> > "Linux gumstix 2.6.10gum #1 Fri Mar 4 15:03:34 PST 2005 armv5tel
> > unknown".  Comparing to what I see at sourceforge, I guess this is
> > r374 of u-boot and r412 of the root fiflesystem.
> >
> >     Thanx,
> >
> > John
> >




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