Ronald G Minnich writes:
>> 3) Mount the RamDISK as the root filesystem (/).
> got this.
>
> I'm doing it now on 100 ds10s. We've been doing it for a year now on a
> bunch of various PIII and AMD boxes.
>
the way I new to do this is to nftl_format the doc past the kernel image and
then fdisk it. later use it as /dev/nftla ...... That was very easy
solution..... but.... there is a problem I found recently about it, here's
what David Woodhouse says about nftla_format in his mtd-jffs-howto:
"DO NOT EVER USE THE nftl_format UTILITY WITHOUT FIRST SEEKING ADVICE
ON THE MAILING LIST. It will erase all blocks on the device,
potentially losing the factory-programmed information about bad
blocks. (Someone really ought to fix it one of these days - ed)"
Today I have 3 Disks on Chip damaged..... they were good when I bought
them.... now If I write past 1 or 2 Megs no error is given but the data gets
corrupted...... Even it happend due this nftl_format utility or the chip got
a electrostatic discharge, i dont know... but anyway, I would avoid to use
nftl_format after seeing this kind of warings....
do you use nftl_format? if so, did you damage any DoC ? would be interesting
to know....
Nikolai
