burn_mtd script fixes

[Roger]

Fails to load module mtdchar.o (or atleast on my boxens with Gentoo)
 - Should probably load mtdchar at the time doc2001 & docprobe are
loaded.

/dev/mtd0 should probably be named /dev/mtd/0
(or a if /dev/mtd0 not found, then /dev/mtd/0 ...depends if the person
has deployed devfs or not.)

[ron minnich]

On 14 Aug 2003, Roger wrote:
> Fails to load module mtdchar.o (or atleast on my boxens with Gentoo)
> Should probably load mtdchar at the time doc2001 & docprobe are
>
> loaded.

yikes, that has not failed in years. I'll try to look.
> /dev/mtd0 should probably be named /dev/mtd/0

only with devfs. OK, how do we cleanly work around the naming problem, 
given that devfs is living on borrowed time?

ron

[Steve Gehlbach]

ron minnich wrote:
OK, how do we cleanly work around the naming problem,
> given that devfs is living on borrowed time?

Oh great, just as I converted to devfs and got used to it.

-Steve

[Roger]

Something like the following should work fine. However, I find the
simplicity of burn_mtd easy to understand and learn what needs to be
done in order to successfully complete the linuxbios build.  Adding more
scripting will increase the time decoding the additional scripting to
understand what actually needs to be done in order to complete the
build.  Maybe when builds become stable such as sis/amd, it would help
to make enhance the scripting to account for these situations (ie
something like autoconf/automake)

#! /bin/bash

if [ -e "/dev/mtd/0" ]; then
    echo 'hello'
else
    echo 'bye'
fi

On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 20:02, ron minnich wrote:
> On 14 Aug 2003, Roger wrote:
> > Fails to load module mtdchar.o (or atleast on my boxens with Gentoo)
> > Should probably load mtdchar at the time doc2001 & docprobe are
> >
> > loaded.
>
> yikes, that has not failed in years. I'll try to look.
> > /dev/mtd0 should probably be named /dev/mtd/0
>
> only with devfs. OK, how do we cleanly work around the naming problem, 
> given that devfs is living on borrowed time?
>
> ron
>
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[ron minnich]

well, if you rewrite it I will committ it.

ron

[Roger]

On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 07:41, ron minnich wrote:
> well, if you rewrite it I will committ it.
>
> ron

Have yet to be able to get a successful linuxbios install on my 440bx
chipsets. So this would be "putting the horse before the carriage" for
me. :-/

[ron minnich]

On 15 Aug 2003, Roger wrote:
> Have yet to be able to get a successful linuxbios install on my 440bx
> chipsets. So this would be "putting the horse before the carriage" for
> me. :-/

I'm off to vacation but will be happy to try to help when I get back in 10 
days.

If anybody wants to take a shot at something new and fun, a port of a 
known-working-board to 2.0 would be very useful.

ron