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sindi keesan wrote:
>
> I notice that BL3 mounts /initrd/DOS 

/initrd/DOS is mounted by the initial ramdisk
(in order to access fs.img).  

> but is it mounting the partition with loadlin 

Once the kernel boots. loadlin is irrelevant.
In fact it is possible to run loadlin successfully
from a device that the kernel is incapable of
accessing.

> or the partition with fs.img?

The loop version of BL3 must have access to
/initrd/DOS/baslin/fs.img  because that is 
the root filesystem.

> if I am likely to mess up FAT32 partitions with 
> the regular kernel.  

I have seen no evidence that the BL3 kernel is
messing up FAT32 partition.

> What is linux using vfat for in BL2?

To read/write long filenames on Windows partitions.

Cheers,
Steven






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