From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from 235-216.205.122.dellhost.com ([216.205.122.235] helo=imagequestdesign.com) by pentafluge.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 17KOIt-0005Bb-00 for ; Tue, 18 Jun 2002 20:06:11 +0100 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Mark Meade To: David Woodhouse Subject: Re: GRUB on DoC Millennium/2000 - Instructions Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 15:03:32 -0400 Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org References: <200206181253609.SM02488@there> <24299.1024423011@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <24299.1024423011@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200206181503578.SM02488@there> 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: David Woodhouse wrote: > Mark, that's excellent documentation -- thanks. Is it OK for me to put that > on the web site? Absolutely! > I have only one suggestion -- rather than using fdisk to create a single > partition and then formatting that as ext2, we might as well just put the > ext2 file system on /dev/nftla (i.e. the whole device), and use (dc0) in > Grub instead. Agreed. I vaguely recall questions related to multiple partitions on the DoC -- my thought was writing it up as one big /dev/nftla1 partition may make it more obvious for those wanting to extend that to nftla2, 3, etc. > BTW, did your 'factory marked' bad blocks in step 10 really match the ones > from step 2? I'm still suspicious of nftl_format. Yes, it did. The /LOG option in DFORMAT stuffs the bad blocks, in hex, into a text file. They matched the bad blocks reported by nftl_format. > It would be _really_ nice > if we could use DFORMAT -- either a Linux port of DFORMAT to replace > nftl_format and/or working out how to turn our Grub image into a .EXB file > so it can be loaded directly by DFORMAT. The latest DFORMAT has an option "/BDKF:" that supposedly will place a boot image file in the "binary (BDK) partition". I tried this with grub_firmware, and I think it actually worked. I'll try again, and if I can make this work reliably, I'll post the details. A Linux DFORMAT that would load the grub firmware and create one ext2 partition all in one shot (like the DOS version does with the M-Sys firmware and FAT12 partition) would be nice! Regards, Mark