* Big Problem with DOC 128Mbyte Help! ADDED Note
@ 2004-12-15 14:49 Carlos, John J USAATC
2004-12-15 22:22 ` Dave Dillow
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From: Carlos, John J USAATC @ 2004-12-15 14:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 'linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org'
The docfdisk utility shows that there are two partitions. The BDL and the
BDTL partition. Could this be giving me problems? Should I get rid of the
two partitions and have one large one? Is that even possible?
Thanks again,
John
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* Re: Big Problem with DOC 128Mbyte Help! ADDED Note
2004-12-15 14:49 Big Problem with DOC 128Mbyte Help! ADDED Note Carlos, John J USAATC
@ 2004-12-15 22:22 ` Dave Dillow
2004-12-15 22:55 ` Dave Dillow
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From: Dave Dillow @ 2004-12-15 22:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Carlos, John J USAATC; +Cc: 'linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org'
On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 09:49, Carlos, John J USAATC wrote:
> The docfdisk utility shows that there are two partitions. The BDL and the
> BDTL partition. Could this be giving me problems? Should I get rid of the
> two partitions and have one large one? Is that even possible?
IIRC, the BDL partition is the DOC BIOS extension, which you'll need for
using a standard BIOS.
The BDTL is the actual data partition.
Your setup is normal.
--
Dave Dillow <dave@thedillows.org>
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* Re: Big Problem with DOC 128Mbyte Help! ADDED Note
2004-12-15 22:22 ` Dave Dillow
@ 2004-12-15 22:55 ` Dave Dillow
2004-12-21 11:43 ` David Woodhouse
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From: Dave Dillow @ 2004-12-15 22:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Carlos, John J USAATC; +Cc: 'linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org'
On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 17:22, Dave Dillow wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 09:49, Carlos, John J USAATC wrote:
> > The docfdisk utility shows that there are two partitions. The BDL and the
> > BDTL partition. Could this be giving me problems? Should I get rid of the
> > two partitions and have one large one? Is that even possible?
>
> IIRC, the BDL partition is the DOC BIOS extension, which you'll need for
> using a standard BIOS.
>
> The BDTL is the actual data partition.
>
> Your setup is normal.
Argh. I should add that is normal for using M-System's BIOS extensions
to boot like you would from any other BIOS device, like a hard drive.
Have you tried an alternate means of booting? Perhaps using a modified
grub in place of M-System's BIOS driver? I've not tried it, but it could
help you avoid having their code trample your filesystem
--
Dave Dillow <dave@thedillows.org>
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* Re: Big Problem with DOC 128Mbyte Help! ADDED Note
2004-12-15 22:55 ` Dave Dillow
@ 2004-12-21 11:43 ` David Woodhouse
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From: David Woodhouse @ 2004-12-21 11:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Dave Dillow; +Cc: 'linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org'
On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 17:55 -0500, Dave Dillow wrote:
> Have you tried an alternate means of booting? Perhaps using a modified
> grub in place of M-System's BIOS driver? I've not tried it, but it
> could help you avoid having their code trample your filesystem
The real answer is to fix our implementation of INFTL so that it isn't
considered corrupt by their code. Unfortunately the INFTL documentation
isn't public -- but there are people from M-Systems on this list.
Perhaps they could look at it?
--
dwmw2
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