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From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: David Vrabel <dvrabel@arcom.co.uk>
Cc: mtd@infradead.org
Subject: Re: Booting from flash
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 16:29:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <25533.965057345@cygnus.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <398598C4.D6FC3ED8@arcom.co.uk>


dvrabel@arcom.co.uk said:
>  How would I go about getting linux to boot of flash.

See Jason's stuff in the boot/ directory of my CVS tree. I haven't looked 
at it. Other people are booting off flash quite happily.

> If I'm using FTL do I need to make GRUB/LILO understand FTL?  

Yes. But why are you using FTL? It's patented and you're not permitted to 
use it on non-PCMCIA devices. You should probably be using JFFS instead.

(You'd need to get your bootloader to understand JFFS, too, but keep an eye 
on handhelds.org where that task is fairly high up on the TODO list.)

> The board I'm using is a standard PC architecture.

Wimp.

> How do all you guys boot?

I don't, on a PC. 

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dwmw2




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  reply	other threads:[~2000-07-31 15:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-07-31 15:18 Booting from flash David Vrabel
2000-07-31 15:29 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2000-07-31 15:48   ` Kira Brown
2000-07-31 18:56     ` Bjorn Eriksson
2000-07-31 21:15       ` Kira Brown
2000-08-02 18:07         ` Simplified initrd on flash/ROM Bjorn Eriksson
2000-08-02 21:07           ` Update: " Bjorn Eriksson
2000-08-01  8:38   ` Booting from flash David Vrabel
2000-08-05  5:22   ` root

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