RedBoot from DoC not working quite well

Iztok Zupet iz at vsr.si
Mon Jul 1 10:03:35 EDT 2002


On Monday 01 July 2002 15:41, Jasmine Strong wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Iztok Zupet wrote:
> > RedBoot boots fine (int18 or int19). But after formating my DoC with
> >
> > nftl_format utility:
> > 	>>> nftl_format /dev/mtd0 128000
>
> You can't start a format from that address.  It's not an erase block
> boundary.  (Most DoC devices have 8k erase blocks.  THat means 8192 bytes,
> not 8000.)
>
> Try erasing from 131072, rather than 128000.
>
> Jas.

 I tried but it still owerwrites or erases my RedBoot.
Size of my redboot_firmware is exactly 123.2K.

Regards
iz




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