New problem with DoC

Russ Dill Russ.Dill at asu.edu
Mon Mar 17 16:13:01 EST 2003


> > 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.

you'd like to think so, unfortunately, grub is a "bit" weird in its API
and interfacing, adding cramfs support to grub was a bit of a pain. I'll
contract to add YAFFS to grub if someone needs it.





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