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Dealing with Bad Blocks on Nand Flash

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About The Project As a part of my Doctorate, I am regularly building, flashing and debugging custom U-Boot bootloaders. I’ve been using OpenWrt as a part of my research on embedded systems, and developing slightly modified builds as previously documented in earlier blog posts. Recently, when flashing my OpenWrt One, I ran into errors that ultimately prevented me from writing a new image to…

About The Project As a part of my Doctorate, I am regularly building, flashing and debugging custom U-Boot bootloaders. I’ve been using OpenWrt as a part of my research on embedded systems, and developing slightly modified builds as previously documented in earlier blog posts. Recently, when flashing my OpenWrt One, I ran into errors that ultimately prevented me from writing a new image to NAND flash and rendered my device a brick!

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