From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from marasystems.com ([213.15.252.90] helo=filer.marasystems.com) by pentafluge.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 17nFjf-0006Jf-00 for ; Fri, 06 Sep 2002 10:49:07 +0100 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Henrik Nordstrom To: Russ Dill , mateo@posta.star.si Subject: Re: DOC 2000 and GRUB Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 11:49:02 +0200 Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org References: <20020906060115.6A1663946@sitemail.everyone.net> <1031302476.763.2.camel@russ> In-Reply-To: <1031302476.763.2.camel@russ> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200209061149.02058.hno@marasystems.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: 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