Hello, mtd-utils_1.4.1 is broken, in fact whole 1.4.X serie was plagued by mtd alignment bug until 1.4.4. See: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2011-April/034599.html Updated in oe-dev with commit f8e1b7793ff5b02fd27ce886b34a57c6c2358239. Regards Andrea