From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Patrick Higgins <phiggins@transzap.com>
Cc: Dvir Oren <dviro@lucidvon.com>, mtd@infradead.org
Subject: Re: Write support
Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 18:56:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3012.959104590@devel2.axiom.internal> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0005231131490.23843-100000@phiggins.transzap.com>
phiggins@transzap.com said:
> I wish I could still do this...unfortunately, I took my chances
> already and used doc_loadbios to write the grub firmware onto the DoC,
> and now it won't boot on my system which has a floppy (the only way
> I've able to get DOS to boot),
Strange. What does it do instead? What firmware did you load with
doc_loadbios?
> but I can still get it to boot Linux with PXE (netboot).
> Would something like:
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mtd0
> accomplish the same thing?
You don't need to set all bits to zero, and it may confuse the M-Systems
drivers - they start at one when erased.
Stick a loop into mtd/util/erase.c if you want it to erase a whole device.
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2000-05-23 17:43 ` Write support Patrick Higgins
2000-05-23 17:56 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
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2000-05-22 18:47 ` Patrick Higgins
2000-05-17 21:33 Patrick Higgins
2000-05-18 9:29 ` David Woodhouse
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