Re: Booting from DOC2000 with GRUB loader

Jasmine Strong
2002-05-02T17:39:12Z

On Thursday, May 2, 2002, at 11:56 AM, John Sutton wrote:

> Nearly there ;-)...
>

Indeed so :-)

> So I've got a 16Kb erase size. What now? If I hack the source so that
> it
> just falls through this test and proceeds to malloc(meminfo.erasesize *
> 5)
> am I heading for big trouble or success?

I *think* it works.

> Once I've gotten past this little gotcha, how do I go about using the
> erase util to erase the piece between the end of the grub and the start
> of
> the nftl partition?

Why not just erase the entire thing, then do doc_loadbios to put the
grub firmware into it, and then nftl_format? Then you'd be sure it was
all
clean and empty.

That's how I did it, anyway.

Jas.