From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from majordomo by infradead.org with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 12uIuv-0004v0-00 for mtd-list@infradead.org; Tue, 23 May 2000 18:56:33 +0100 Received: from gate.mvhi.com ([194.205.184.34] helo=server.axiom.internal ident=mail) by infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 3.03 #1) id 12uIuu-0004uu-00 for mtd@infradead.org; Tue, 23 May 2000 18:56:32 +0100 From: David Woodhouse In-Reply-To: References: To: Patrick Higgins Cc: Dvir Oren , mtd@infradead.org Subject: Re: Write support Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 18:56:30 +0100 Message-ID: <3012.959104590@devel2.axiom.internal> Sender: owner-mtd@infradead.org List-ID: phiggins@transzap.com said: > I wish I could still do this...unfortunately, I took my chances > already and used doc_loadbios to write the grub firmware onto the DoC, > and now it won't boot on my system which has a floppy (the only way > I've able to get DOS to boot), Strange. What does it do instead? What firmware did you load with doc_loadbios? > but I can still get it to boot Linux with PXE (netboot). > Would something like: > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mtd0 > accomplish the same thing? You don't need to set all bits to zero, and it may confuse the M-Systems drivers - they start at one when erased. Stick a loop into mtd/util/erase.c if you want it to erase a whole device. -- dwmw2 To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe mtd" to majordomo@infradead.org