New problem with DoC

Charles Manning manningc2 at actrix.gen.nz
Mon Mar 17 15:49:27 EST 2003


On Tue, 18 Mar 2003 08:31, Russ Dill wrote:
[snip]
>
> > Next question, how do I put that one, the /boot directory, and the
> > menu.list as when I would use a normal Grub booting arrangement in to
> > the DoC? Oh, and a custom kernel as well.
>
> right now, grub only supports filesystems on top of NFTL. It'd be really
> nice to get YAFFS and JFFS2 support into grub. As a workaround, you may
> be able to use a small NFTL partition, with cramfs (patches exist to add
> cramfs to grub) containing a menu.lst and kernel, and then mount the
> rest as YAFFS/JFFS2. Or of course just use NFTL

There is a bootloader for YAFFS in CVS (in the direct subdirectory). Very 
simple. Should be very easy to add to grub.

-- CHarles





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