From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from dell-paw-3.cambridge.redhat.com ([195.224.55.237] helo=passion.cambridge.redhat.com) by pentafluge.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 17KL5q-0004pq-00 for ; Tue, 18 Jun 2002 16:40:30 +0100 From: David Woodhouse In-Reply-To: <20020618112117.5634.qmail@linuxmail.org> References: <20020618112117.5634.qmail@linuxmail.org> To: "xyz xyz" Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: DOC boot prob,making rum 4 GRUB Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 16:40:13 +0100 Message-ID: <14458.1024414813@redhat.com> Sender: linux-mtd-admin@lists.infradead.org Errors-To: linux-mtd-admin@lists.infradead.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: watsup@linuxmail.org said: > i have learnt from the list that we need to make room for GRUB on DOC > ,how do i do that,david suggested to use DFORMAT,can any1 give me the > exact cmd to do that? i dont want to use ntfl_format due to poor block > handling You can tell DFORMAT how much space to leave for the firmware -- try the /HELP option or something. We don't yet know how to turn our grub_firmware binary into a .EXB file which DFORMAT will write to the flash _for_ us. That would be a nice development -- it shouldn't be too hard to work out how that file works. You need to build grub according to the documentation and then see how large the resulting binary is -- _that_ is the amount of space you need to reserve. -- dwmw2