From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@marasystems.com>
To: Russ Dill <Russ.Dill@asu.edu>, mateo@posta.star.si
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: DOC 2000 and GRUB
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 11:49:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200209061149.02058.hno@marasystems.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1031302476.763.2.camel@russ>
Russ Dill wrote:
> k, the grub firmware takes up a specific amount of space, if you just
> load the grub firmware without thinking about this, you'll likely
> overwrite important parts of your nftl partition. So you need to figure
> out how many sectors your firmware takes up, nftl_format just past that,
> erase the now unused sectors, and then load your firmware
Or wait until the new NFTL format is understood, and use the M-Sys DFORMAT 5.x
program format the flash and install GRUB (plus reserve additional binary
boot partition space if needed for future upgrades of GRUB)
Personally I am not very comfortable with using ntfl_format when even the
documentation to ntfl_format says you really should be using the DFORMAT tool
for formatting the flash.
Regards
Henrik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-06 9:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-06 6:01 DOC 2000 and GRUB Mateo Anderson
2002-09-06 6:40 ` MAL
2002-09-06 7:29 ` Henrik Nordström
2002-09-06 8:54 ` Russ Dill
2002-09-06 9:49 ` Henrik Nordstrom [this message]
2002-09-06 10:24 ` David Woodhouse
2002-09-06 11:00 ` Mark Meade
2002-09-06 12:27 ` Henrik Nordstrom
2002-09-06 12:40 ` Mark Meade
2002-09-06 12:48 ` Henrik Nordstrom
2002-09-06 12:22 ` Henrik Nordstrom
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-09-06 7:15 Mateo Anderson
2002-09-06 7:36 Mateo Anderson
2002-09-06 8:00 ` Henrik Nordström
2002-09-06 9:50 Mateo Anderson
2002-09-06 11:25 Mateo Anderson
2002-09-06 12:33 ` Mark Meade
2002-09-06 12:34 ` Henrik Nordstrom
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