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 17nIJc-0006iR-00 for ; Fri, 06 Sep 2002 13:34:24 +0100 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Henrik Nordstrom To: mateo@posta.star.si, mark@lakeshoremicro.com, dwmw2@infradead.org Subject: Re: DOC 2000 and GRUB Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 14:34:17 +0200 Cc: Russ.Dill@asu.edu, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org References: <20020906112553.896FB394E@sitemail.everyone.net> In-Reply-To: <20020906112553.896FB394E@sitemail.everyone.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200209061434.17881.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: Mateo Anderson wrote: > Steps: > 1) Boot DOS and use DFORMAT 5.x to format the DOC, with > the appropriate space for the GRUB firmware (check the > size of the stage1 file). DFORMAT 5.x automatically allocates the needed space. You only need to care about space if you want to reserve additional space in the binary boot flash partition to allow for upgrades to a bigger GRUB firmware in the future. > 2) Boot to Linux, use the doc_loadbios to load the GRUB > firmware (or use DFORMAT - what parameters??). Use DFORMAT. doc_loadbios is for "advanced users" who have read the documentation shipped with the M-Sys 5.X tools and knows the current limitations of the doc_loadbios command and it's bad interactions with the nftl Linux driver.. Note: DFORMAT can also be used to upgrade the boot firmware without destroying the NFTL disk flash partition, provided the new boot firmware fits in the reserved binary flash partition that is.. > 3) Format the /dev/nftla. This would be 3) Partition /dev/nftla using Linux fdisk. The NFTL is already formatted by DFORMAT, and a single DOS partition covering the whole flash have been created and formatted. > 4) Copy everything to the /dev/nftla1. > 5) Boot from DOC. > > Is this correct? More or less. Regards Henrik