As well, you can save your environment with this script:
#! /bin/sh
dd if=/dev/mtd0ro of=uboot-current-env bs=65536 count=4 skip=10
cat uboot-current-env | sed -e 's/\xFF//g' | sed -e 's/\x00\x00//g' | sed -e 's/\x00/\n/g' | dd of=tt bs=1 skip=4
echo "`cat tt`" >envir
rm tt
then you have a file named "envir" with a copy of u-boot evironment.