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 For information: ubi info (only works after the above "attach" command is issued)
-...and another 2 hours of research after this, and no luck what so ever in figuring out why everyone on the planet says that something like "ubi part firmware2" will ''attach'' a UBI volume, when on the WRT32X Marvell version of U-Boot, it executes a complete "FDISK" (guess what the F stands for here), and wipes everything on the existing partition (checked it twice and it DOES hose the partition).
+...and another 2 hours of research after this, and no luck what so ever in figuring out why everyone on the planet says that something like "ubi part firmware2" will ''attach'' a UBI volume, when on the WRT32X Marvell version of U-Boot, it executes a complete "FDISK" (guess what the F stands for here), and wipes everything on the existing partition (checked it twice and it DOES hose the partition).<syntaxhighlight lang="text">
+It does this;
-<br />
+Venom>> ubi part firmware2
+Creating 1 MTD partitions on ...
+Instead of this;
+Venom>> ubi part firmware2
+mtd: Giving out device 1 to mtd=5
+ubi0: attaching mtd1
+</syntaxhighlight>Maybe it isn't a UBI partition at this point because it has a SquashFS image there.  Who know?  Certainly not a web page publically accessible and apparently an OpenWRT secret.  Am I cranky?  Yup.  This is what happens when smart people build things.  They don't document it very well.<br />
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-=== Thanks to... ===
+===Thanks to...===
 https://github.com/ARM-software/u-boot/blob/master/doc/README.ubi