Re: [Bootldr] correct disk format for boot ide

From: Philip Blundell <pb.a.t.nexus.co.uk>
Date: Thu Dec 25 2003 - 17:15:51 EST

On Thu, 2003-12-25 at 17:53, William Moser wrote:
> what is the correct disk format that should be used
> for the "boot ide" bootldr command? Should it be vfat
> or ext3? Also, can the disk be partitioned? Would it
> boot a standard Debian linux for ARM installation?

"boot ide" doesn't use a filesystem at all. I suspect that what you
really want is "boot vfat", which uses a VFAT filesystem. The disk can
(indeed, probably should) have a partition table.

Bootldr can't read ext2, so you would need to create a special /boot
partition as VFAT. Other than that, and the normal drama relating to
having the root partition on a PCMCIA device, it should boot Debian just
fine.

p.
Received on Thu Dec 25 22:16:19 2003

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